Atchison, T. & S. F. R. v. Reesman’s Empirical Analysis
60 F. 370 · 1894
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1959
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Columbia Co v. Hawthorne · Railroad Company v. Jones · Hayes v. Michigan Central Railroad · Massoth v. President of Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of obedience to the rules of the employer is one resting alike upon all employés; and, when an employe claims to recover from his employer for injuries resulting through the latter’s negligence, he cannot escape the consequences of his own act contributing to such injury — an act done in known violation of the rules of such employer — on the ground that his immediate sui>erintendent knew and assented to such act of violation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the duty is cast by the statute upon the company, and it is cast as an absolute duty. It must erect and maintain safe and secure fences. It is a duty whose object is the securing a safe place for the employ és on the train to do their work, and that, as is known, is an absolute duty cast upon the company, responsibility for neglect of which cannot be evaded by intrusting it to some employs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is unnecessary to pursue this matter further. It may be laid down as a general rule that the mere knowledge and assent of his immediate superior to a violation by an employe of a known rule of the company — the employer— will not, as a matter of law, relieve such employé from the consequences of such violation.””
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.