Evey v. Mexican Cent. Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
81 F. 294 · 1897
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1975
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Huntington v. Attrill · Burgess v. Seligman · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · Dennick v. Railroad Co. · The " Scotland"
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of an employé of a railroad company, injured in the republic of Mexico by the negligence of the company, to recover in a civil action damages for such injury under the law of that republic, may be enforced in a federal court in the state of Texas having jurisdiction of the parties' and of the subject-matter; that law being neither so vague and uncertain, nor so dissimilar to the law of the state of Texas, as to prevent it from being, so enforced, and both parties being citizens of the United States.” !”
3 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.