Michigan Central R. R. Co. v. Smithson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1938 · most notably Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Ross (1884), Sappenfield v. Main Street & Agricultural Park Railroad (1891)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Bayfield · Davis v. Detroit & Milwaukee Rail Road · Swoboda v. Ward · Quincy Mining Co. v. Kitts · Lovejoy v. Boston & Lowell Railroad
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.