Rivera v. American Export Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1985 · most notably Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962), United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. (1958)
11 federal appellate · 3 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 Phillips v. Baker · Fakouri v. Cadais · Insul-Wool Insulation Corp. v. Home Insulation, Inc. · Dworsky v. Alanjay Bias Binding Corp. · General Motors Corp. v. Coe
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The liberal theory holds that materiality and relevancy being assumed, only the existence of ‘identity of issue’ is necessary for admissibility.””
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.