Piggue v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Carter v. Carter Coal Co. · Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · New York Cent Co v. Porter · American Employers' Insurance Co. v. Williams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the amendment to the federal employers’ liability act any employee of a carrier, any part of whose duties shall be the furtherance of interstate commerce, or shall in any way directly or closely and substantially affect such commerce, is considered as employed by such carrier in interstate commerce and is entitled to the benefits of the act.” (1. c. 711.)”
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.