Castilleja v. Southern Pacific Co.’s Empirical Analysis
445 F.2d 183 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Newman v. Alabama (1974), Bailey v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (1980)
13 federal appellate · 8 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Stewart v. Meyers · Hertz v. Graham · Louise Abernathy, Ind., and as Next Friend of Lowell K. Abernathy, a Minor v. Southern Pacific Company
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is customary in federal courts to accept statements of parties or counsel as to unavailability of witnesses as a predicate to the use of [their] depositions * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a very brief interval for observation and protective action by a driver approaching the crossing on the road involved here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was within the discretion of the trial court to accept or reject counsel's representations (about unavailability).”
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.