Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company Texas North Western Railway Company v. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s Empirical Analysis
860 F.2d 267 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 26 1673 74636 James Wilson Associates Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1992), Graefenhain v. Pabst Brewing Co. (1989)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Bank of Marin v. England · Schokbeton Industries, Inc. v. Schokbeton Products Corp. · 70764 Chicago Pacific Corporation Organization of Minority Vendors Inc · Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Appeal of Soo Line Railroad Company
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trustee cannot accept the benefits of an executory contract without accepting the burdens as well.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the best position to interpret its own orders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contracts cum onere, that is, subject to existing burdens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.