Thompson v. Camp’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 733 · 1948
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Vizzini v. Ford Motor Co. (1977), Werthan Bag Corp. v. Agnew (1953)
38 federal appellate · 3 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 Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Thompson v. Camp · May Department Stores Co. v. Bell · Perkins v. Brown · Empire Fuel Co. v. Lyons
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'only in those cases where it is plain that the error which has crept into one element of the verdict did not in any way affect the determination of any other issue.'”
3 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.