Allison v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Union Pacific Railroad v. Hadley · Rocco v. Lehigh Valley Railroad · Union Pac Co v. Hadley · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Steel · Thom v. Northern Pacific Railway 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to be guilty of negligence as a matter of law the evidence must be undisputed and the facts must not be conflicting and must clearly prove that he acted in a manner in which a reasonably prudent person would not have acted under the circumstances, or that he failed to act in such a manner as a reasonably prudent person would have acted under the circumstances.” 1”
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.