Reading Township v. Telfer’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably Schmid v. Eslick (1957), Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Gorsuch (1917)
38 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 Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Creek · Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad v. Spilker · Hoag v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Prideaux v. City of Mineral Point · Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. McIntosh
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ This defect in the common law was remedied by the enactment of the statute in question ; and the only effect of such statute was to bring a class of cases within the operation of the common law of negligence which hitherto had been without. This statute simply declared as to counties and townships what has always been the law with respect to cities, private corporations, and individuals. A contrary view has been held in Walker v. Chester County, 40 S. C. 342, but it does not meet our approval.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The doctrine of imputable negligence, except when countenanced by statute, is a fiction of the law which finds small favor with the courts, and has been very infrequently applied in our own.” (p. 803.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““All sentiments and instincts of manhood and chivalry impose upon him the obligation to care for and protect his weaker and confiding companion; and all these justify the assumption by him of the labors and responsibilities of the journey, with their accompanying rights of direction and control.” (p. 802.)”
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.