Savell v. Southern Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.2d 377 · 1937
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Beighley v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1989), Nissho-Iwai American Corp. v. Kline (1988)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 81
Relies on Messenger v. Anderson · Fisk · Remington v. Central Pacific Railroad · Duncan v. Gegan · Cain v. Commercial Publishing Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in its current posture 'as though everything done in state court had in fact been done in the federal court.'”
5 later decisions 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.