Rhoton v. Interstate R.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1982
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 Mid-States Products Co. v. Commodity Credit Corp. · Naughton v. Pennsylvania R. Co. · 122 F. Supp. 527 - Tuck v. Pennsylvania R. 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As against this, plaintiff says the neurosurgeon he consulted lives in Philadelphia and the hospital to which he was sent by the surgeon is in Philadelphia. Without inquiring into plaintiff’s motives in selecting a physician six hundred miles from his home, it certainly involved additional expenses to which he did not object and conversely should not now as an expense in producing him as a witness at the place where the accident occurred, where all other witnesses are located, where plaintiff resides, where defendant’s railroad is located, and where defendant’s hospital records and doctors are and in the ordinary course would naturally be located, outweigh all of these considerations.””
2 later decisions 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.