Lukon v. Pennsylvania R. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 327 · 1942
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Johnson v. United States (1948), Rodella v. United States (1960)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Erie Railroad v. Winfield · Southern Railway-Carolina Division v. Bennett · Chesapeake Ry Co v. Kuhn · Central R. v. Peluso
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Federal Employers' Liability Act was designed to be applied liberally for the protection of the railroad and other employees.”
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.