Hannibal Railroad v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis
79 U.S. 262 · 1870
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1979 · most notably Japan Line, Ltd. v. County of Los Angeles (1979), Central Trust Co of New York v. Kneeland (1891)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
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.