Collins v. Hustis’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1949 · most notably Derosier v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1925), Jones v. Boston & Maine Railroad (1927)
34 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 Gahagan v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Folsom v. Concord & Montreal Railroad · McGill v. Maine & New Hampshire Granite Co. · Davis v. Concord & Montreal Railroad · Huntress v. Boston & Maine Railroad
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether if it was necessary for the public convenience to run railroad trains over such a crossing at a high rate of speed ordinary prudence did not require more effective warning than the whistle at the signal post one fourth of a mile away and an ‘automatic flagman’ is a question of fact to be solved by the jury from their judgment of reasonable conduct in such circumstances.””
1 later decision 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.