St. John v. Erie Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
89 U.S. 136 · 1874
Citation profile
51
cited by 51 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
14
states following
July 1944
most recently cited
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1944 · most notably Warren v. King (1883), Mobile Co v. State of Tennessee (1894)
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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.