Husky Refining Co. v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.2d 715 · 1941
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably McKenna v. Austin (1943), Brown v. AVEMCO Investment Corp. (1979)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Miller v. Union Pacific R. · Washington Co v. Hickey · 5 Cal. App. 400 - Cordiner v. Los Angeles Traction Co. · Young v. Anderson · Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Co. v. Polak
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . whether the tortfeasors be joint or independent, the injured party is entitled to no more than compensation for his injury; and . . . consideration received from one, for the release of any claim against him, operates to reduce pro tanto the amount recoverable from the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is to be assumed in the absence of a showing to the contrary that the direction of the court was followed”
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.