Hoffman v. Reading Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1990
2 federal appellate · 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. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Lovejoy v. Murray · Troxell v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Sessions v. Johnson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is asserted here that the Employers’ Liability Act affords no recovery for pecuniary damages which the infant Naomi might suffer after the age of twenty-one years, while the Pennsylvania Death Act does permit such recovery. A reading of the Liability Act discloses no such limitation in express language. The act (section 1 [Title 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 ]) says the railroad engaged in interstate commerce ‘shall be liable in damages * * * for such injury or death.’ Here, we find nothing which would lead to the conclusion that if a showing of facts be presented wherefrom an infant would appear to suffer in a pecuniary way after majority, it would not be a factor upon which damages might be recovered. “Whether the Pennsylvania Death Act, either by its express terms or by judicial interpretation, allows damages to an infant for anticipatory pecuniary loss after twenty-one years of age is not material, since our conclusion is, the Federal Employers’ Liability Act would allow such a recovery when a proper state of facts appears to sustain it. It therefore follows that the satisfaction of the judgment in the employ ers’ liability suit estops the plaintiffs here from any further recovery for that item of damage. “There can be no doubt but that the plaintiff here is entitled to full and complete satisfaction, and if the instant suit covers any item not recoverable in the employers’ liability suit, which is recoverable here under the Death Act, she is entitled to it. * * * There is but one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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