Atchison Co. v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1975
7 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 Riddlesbarger v. Hartford Insurance · Express Company v. Caldwell · Nelson v. Hudson River Railroad · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Trawick · Hill v. Boston, Hoosac Tunnel, & Western Railroad
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such stipulations, in brief, are upheld upon the theory that they are not opposed to public policy; that they are reasonable, and do not in any manner exempt the common carrier from negligence, but are conditions of recovery, and not exemptions from liability, which the carrier may lawfully include in its contract of shipment, for the purpose of protecting it against fictitious and unfounded claims for 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.