2004 Pa. Super. 407 - Meyer v. Union Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2025
8 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. § 53 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 49 U.S.C. § 20101 (Federal Railroad Safety Authorization Act of 1994)
Relies on Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Marathon Oil Co. v. United States · Thompson v. Thompson · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Dickerson
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.
“We review the trial court’s jury instructions for an abuse of discretion or legal error controlling the outcome of the case. A jury charge will be found to be adequate unless, when read in its entirety, the charge confused the jury, misled the jury, or contained an omission tantamount to fundamental error. It must appear that the erroneous instruction may have affected the jury’s verdict. Consequently, the trial court has great discretion in forming jury instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.