Railroad Company v. Gladmon’s Empirical Analysis
82 U.S. 401 · 1872
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 13 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1975 · most notably Hough v. Railway Co. (1879), Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L (1915)
67 federal appellate · 13 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 28 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pennywit v. Eaton
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of law in regard to the negligence of an adult, and the rule in regard to that of an infant of tender years is quite different. By the adult there must be given that care and attention for his own protection that is ordinarily exercised by persons of intelligence and discretion. 0 * * Of an infant of tender year;-, loss discretion is required, and the degree depends upon his age and knowledge. * * The caution required is according to the maturity and capacity of the child, and this is to be determined in each case by the circumstances of that case.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Payne v. Blevins
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.