Major v. CSX Transportation, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
June 2004
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Charbonnages De France v. Smith · Barwick v. Celotex Corp.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is a legal conclusion in the nature of a stipulation excusing the need to produce evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“crew error... was a substantial legal cause of [a] collision”
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.