Pitcairn v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.2d 881 · 1941
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1996
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 San Juan Light Transit Company v. Belen Requena · Southern Railway-Carolina Division v. Bennett · Chesapeake Ry Co v. Kuhn · Terminal R. Ass'n v. Staengel · Noce v. St. Louis-San Francisco 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t has been held that a physician making an examination pursuant to an order of the court becomes an officer of the court and he is available to either party as a witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sprinkle v. Burton
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.