Wright v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1981
16 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 Pennsylvania Company v. Roy · Crocker v. Johnston · Curtis v. Schwartzman Packing Company · Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Smith · Larsen v. Bliss
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An abuse of discretion is said to occur when the court exceeds the bounds of reason, all circumstances before it being considered. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is within the sound discretion of the trial judge, based upon the facts and circumstances involved in the particular case, to determine whether the matter shall be submitted to the jury on general verdicts of special interrogatories or both. .. . [Emphasis added.]”
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.