Wasserman v. Perugini’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.2d 305 · 1949
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Leather's Best, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. S.S. Mormaclynx, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees (1971), Astor-Honor, Inc. v. Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. (1971)
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Hartford Electric Light Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Brown v. Cranston · United States ex rel. White v. Ragen · Pearce v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Pearce v. Pennsylvania R.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Aside from the problem of joinder presented by the doctrine of sovereign immunity, there is the further problem of federal jurisdiction over plaintiff’s tort claim against the individual defendant or defendants. This claim can hardly be said to present a federal matter merely because the United States is a joint tort-feasor and hence it must be supported by independent jurisdictional grounds, usually diversity or alien-age between the plaintiff and the individual defendant or defendants and more than $3,000 must be involved.” (Now, of course, $10,000.)”
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.