Murphy v. Lehigh Valley R.’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.2d 481 · 1946
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1989 · most notably United States v. F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. (1958), Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1970)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Blair v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Union Pacific Railroad v. Hadley · Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. Co. v. Pratt
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the plaintiff’s appeal the judgment should be modified in respect to the allowance of interest. Had there been no pending motion to set aside the verdict judgment could, and should, have been entered forth but [sic] the clerk in accordance with the Rule 58, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c. But after the motion was made it had to be decided before any judgment could be entered. The motion was granted conditionally with leave to the plaintiff to file a remittitur. This was done and the court made the judgment order on October 11, 1945. That was when the notation of the judgment in the civil docket should have been made and it became the judgment day. Rule 79(a). Since there was no date previous to October 11, 1945, on which the judgment could have, and should have, been entered it became the date from which interest was allowable. Louisiana & Arkansas R. Co. v. Pratt, 5 Cir., 142 F.2d 847 .””
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.