English v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1997
14 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 Bennett v. Railroad Co. · Glaser v. Rothschild · Plummer v. Dill · Gordon v. Cummings · Coupe v. Platt
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proof of the condition of the railing at about the time of the injury is- competent, even though the most satisfactory evidence of the condition of the railing is at the moment immediately preceding the accident, but, if such evidence is unobtainable, it is sufficient to show the condition within such a reasonable time as will, in the nature of the case, fairly tend to show its condition at the moment preceding the accident. Arndt v. Bourke, 120 Mich. 263 , 79 N. W. 190 ; M., K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Williams, 103 Tex. 228 , 125 S. W. 881 ; Joyce v. Black, 226 Pa. 408 , 75 Atl. 602 , 27 L. R. A. (N. S.) 863; Jacksonville, S. E. Ry. Co. v. Southworth, 135 Ill. 250 , 25 N. E. 1093 ; City of Bloomington v. Osterle, 139 Ill. 120 , 28 N. E. 1068 ; Hall v. City of Auston, 73 Minn. 134 , 75 N. W. 1121 ; Stewart et al. v. Everts, 76 Wis. 35 , 44 N. W. 1092 , 20 Am. St. Rep. 17 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.