Southern Pac. Co. v. Libbey’s Empirical Analysis
199 F.2d 341 · 1952
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2002
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 North Carolina Railroad Company v. James a Zachary · Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Hervey v. Rhode Island Locomotive Works · Heryford v. Davis · Minneapolis Ry Co v. Rock
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“providing the false statement was of such character that it 'substantially affected the examining surgeon's conclusion that he was in good health and acceptable physical condition'.”
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.