Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Elmore & Stahl’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
220 federal appellate · 90 district · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 926 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Hughes Aircraft Company v. North American Van Lines Inc 1-100 (1992), Vana Trading Co. v. S.S. METTE SKOU (1977)
220 federal appellate · 90 district · 232 state decisions — followed in 34 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Schnell v. The Vallescura · Fallen v. United States · Southern Railway Co. v. Prescott
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 926 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the act of God; (b) the public enemy; (c) the act of the shipper himself; (d) public authority; (e) or the inherent vice or nature of the goods.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the full actual loss, damage, or injury”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)ll the facts and circumstances upon which (it) may rely to relieve (it) of (its) duty * * *. In consequence, the law casts upon (it) the burden of the loss which (it) cannot explain, or explaining, bring within the exceptional case in which (it) is relieved from liability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.