Griswold v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 333 · 1946
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1978 · most notably Wilkerson v. McCarthy (1949), Myers v. Reading Co. (1947)
12 federal appellate · 9 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Lavender v. Kurn · Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for all practical purposes, a railroad an insurer of its employees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The employee has a right to assume that his employer has exercised ordinary care with respect to providing him with a reasonably safe place of work.”
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.