Railway Co. v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1971 · most notably Oak Leaf Mill Co. v. Cooper (1912), St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Holmes (1908)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Barron v. Eldredge · Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad v. Nelson · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Scott · Troxler v. Richmond & Danville Railroad · Illinois Central Railroad v. Frazier
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligence is the want of ordinary care; that is such care as an ordinarily prudent man would exercise in the place of, and under the same circumstances as, the party charged with negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCulloch v. Horton
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.