Gold Star Meat Co. v. Union Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
438 F.2d 1270 · 1971
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2017
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Kirby · New York Philadelphia Norfolk Railroad Company v. Peninsula Produce Exchange of Maryland · Railroad Company v. Manufacturing Company · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he burden of proof is on the carrier to show that the market value rule will not result in a just measure of actual damages.”
1 later decision 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.