Pacific S. S. Co. v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.2d 579 · 1925
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2004
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. C a Starbird · Gooch v. Oregon Short Line Railroad · Hartog v. Memory · New Jersey Steamboat Co. v. Brockett · Gillespie v. . Brooklyn Heights R.R. 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]y the sale of the ticket there arose a contractual relationship between the company and the passenger, to which relationship the law by its own force annexed certain implied obligations and duties to be observed and performed by the parties, respectively, toward each other. The contract of carriage made it the duty of the carrier to carry safely and to protect its passenger from violence and insult committed by its own servants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a duty of absolute protection from the assaults and aggressions of it servants, and the rule is well-nigh universal that the carrier cannot plead as a defense that the servant acted outside the scope of his employment”
2 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.