Chaplin v. Freeland’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1929
2 district · 6 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 Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. McMurray · Manning v. Gasharie · Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railway Co. v. McVay · Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad v. Mylott · Swazey v. Union Manufacturing 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Eailroad companies occupy a peculiar position with reference to such matters, exercising qu,asi public functions, clothed with extraordinary privileges, carrying their employés necessarily to places remote from their homes, subjecting them to unusual hazards and dangers. The law has, by reason of the dictates of humanity and the necessities of the occasion, imposed upon such companies the duty of providing for the immediate and absolutely essential needs of injured employés, when there is a pressing emergency calling for their immediate action. 'In such cases, even subordinate officers are sometimes, for the time being, clothed with the powers of the corporation itself for the purposes of the immediate emergency, and no longer.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.