Pyle v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
79 F. 744 · 1897
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1934 · most notably Gilbert v. Burlington, C. R. & N. Ry. Co. (1904), Quinette v. Bisso (1905)
24 federal appellate ·
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 Grand Trunk Ry Co of Canada v. Ives · Delaware Co v. Converse · Railroad Company v. Houston · Aerkfetz v. Humphreys · Little v. Hackett
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Pyle was the driver of the/ team, and he was responsible for its movements. Ho was sitting on the north side of the wagon, oh the side from which the train that collided with- his wagon approached. Iiis view of the track on which it came was unobstructed for 2,000 feet. His horses were not afraid of the cars, and they were standing still from 15 to 25 feet from the track. He sat quietly in his wagon for a minute after he looked to the north, and then, without looking north again, he drove slowly upon the track, and the engine coming from that direction caught him. His failure to use his eyes diligently, his failure to look to the north for an entire minute before he drove upon the track, and his act of starting his horses forward upon it, without glancing alternately in each direction, were acts of gross negligence. If he had not been guilty of them, the accident could not have happened. If he had not driven his horses upon the track In front of the approaching engine, there would have been no collision; and if he had looked to the north immediately before he drove them! forward, he would never have done so. Upon this state of facts, there was no escape from the conclusion that the negligence of Pyle was the proximate cause of the collision,””
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.