West v. Eastern Transp. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 478 · 1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1989
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on De Zon v. American President Lines, Ltd. · Pittsburgh S. S. Co. v. Palo · De Zon v. American President Lines, Ltd. · Creek Nation v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the Jones Act, two requirements must be satisfied in order to maintain an action. (1) There must have been a negligent act on the part of defendant; (2) The act must have contributed to the injury. The Matagalpa, D.C., 9 F.Supp. 416 . See, also, De Zon v. American President Lines, Ltd., 318 U.S. 660 , 63 S.Ct. 814 , 87 L.Ed. 1065 , rehearing denied 319 U.S. 780 , 63 S.Ct. 1025 , 87 L.Ed. 1725 ; Pittsburgh S.S. Co. v. Palo, 6 Cir., 64 F.2d 198 .”
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.