Springer v. . Westcott’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1940
23 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSpringier v. Westcott
Relationships
Relies on Zimmer v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Madan v. . Sherard · Witcher v. . Jones
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as the rights of the plaintiff are concerned, the defendant had assumed control of the trunk and was bound to make safe delivery thereof to her. By its action it ran the risk of receiving the trunk, with the contents unharmed, from the railroad company, its bailee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zambakian v. Werner
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.