Sibley v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1946
14 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not disputed that the plaintiff leaped from the train while it was in rapid motion. The court referred it to the jury, under appropriate instructions, to say whether he acted voluntarily, or from a fear, generated by the conduct of the conductor, that worse consequence might befall him if he attempted to remain in the car.””
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.