Renlund v. Commodore Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Lykiardopoulo v. New Orleans & C. R., Light & Power (1910), Boeing v. Owsley (1913)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 Mulhall v. Fallon · Augusta Railway Co. v. Glover · Kellyville Coal Co. v. Petraytis · Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad v. Higgins · Philpott v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Turning, now, to the language of our own statute, there is not a word or expression indicating an intention to limit-its application to persons residing' within the state, or to residents of sister states. The object of the statute was to remedy the harshness of the common law, and in some degree compensate those dependent upon the person killed. It would indícale an unnatural and selfish motive to draw a distinction between the dependent relatives who reside in another state or foreign government and those residing in our own state; and, unless such intention is manifest, we are not at liberty to assume that the lawmakers were legislating upon any such basis. As stated by the learned Chief Justice in Mulhall v. Fallon, supra, it is well known that a large percentage of the laborers who come within the borders of the. state to seek employment leave their families and relatives behind. We ffaii-k it is more in accordance with the spirit of the age that this statute he construed to have a universal application, and that it is intended to restore the dependent, wherever the place of residence, in some degree, compensation, for a loss resulting from an act of negligence committed within the state."”
2 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.