Ross Winans v. The New York and Erie Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 88 · 1858
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. (1996), Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995)
18 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[e]xperts may be examined to explain terms of art, and the state of the art, at any given time,' but they cannot be used to prove 'the proper or legal construction of any instrument of writing.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Experience has shown that opposite opinions of persons professing to be experts, may be obtained to any amount ....”
4 later decisions 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.