Railroad v. Acuff’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1963
5 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the jury sliall find lliat the deceased was deaf and dumb, arid shall further find that on the morning of the killing he was warned of unusual danger from walking the track, by reason of the irregular running of a construction train, or for any other cause, and advised to lake the dirt road, and still deceased, regardless of the warning, chose to walk on the railroad track, knowing that he could hoar no signal, this would be such negligence as would bar recovery, and you should so find.””
1 later decision 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.