Kaminski v. Chicago River & Indiana R. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 1 · 1952
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably Shenker v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1963), Mitchell v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (1990)
19 federal appellate · 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 Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Carter v. Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Co. · Wetherbee v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry. Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before defendant can be charged with negligence in failing to remedy the condition which caused plaintiff’s injury, or failed to warn plaintiff of the existence of such a condition, it is necessary to establish that the defendant had actual knowledge of the condition, or, in the exercise of ordinary care, should have known of its existence.””
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.