Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Seamas’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.2d 140 · 1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2014
3 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 53 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 54 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Lavender v. Kurn · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co. · McCandless 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a general order is given, an employee must use ordinary care in its execution, and the giving of the order does not affect the question whether the servant has been negligent in his manner of carrying it out, where there is a choice open to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has the right to assume in the absence of warning or notice to the contrary, that he would not thereby be subjected to injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hat an employee is entitled to assume has a vital bearing on the question whether his acts are or are not negligent. * * *”
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.