McCarthy v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.2d 721 · 1940
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Jacob v. City of New York (1942), Hoffman v. Palmer (1942)
13 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 45 U.S.C. § 228A · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 55 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Di Carlo v. United States · Northwestern Mut Life Ins Co v. Muskegon Nat Bank · Holm v. Cities Service Transp. Co. · Johnson v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this chapter, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.”
1 later decision 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.