N. K. Fairbank & Co. v. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry.’s Empirical Analysis
81 F. 289 · 1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1930
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 The Caledonia · Burr v. Duryee · Black v. Goodrich Transportation Co. · Hawkins v. Great Western R. R. · Georgia Pacific Railway Co. v. Brooks
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this light, ‘machinery’ only includes the mechanical instrumentalities present in the engine room of the steamer or the locomotive of the train. The ears and their appurtenances are the things which are being moved or drawn by the machinery. Parts of the ear are not, in our opinion, in the common acceptation of the term, embraced within the term ‘machinery,’ especially when that is associated with the term ‘boilers.’ * * The wheels and axle are necessary to the movement of the car, just as the hull and plates on the ship are necessary to its progress through the water; and in a wide sense they are a part of the machinery necessary to render the transportation of the train or ship possible.””
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.