Farrell Lines, Inc. v. Devlin’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Adloo v. H.T. Brown Real Estate, Inc. (1996), Crockett v. Crothers (1972)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 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. § 54 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. · Alaska Steamship Co. v. Petterson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"7. Insurance: The Contractor agrees to carry and include in the rates herein specified, Workmen's Compensation Insurance for the unlimited protection of its employees under State and Federal laws, also Comprehensive General Liability Insurance in the amount of $100,000.00 for death or injury of one person and $1,000,000.00 for death or injury of more than one person in a single accident. Such Comprehensive General Liability Insurance to contain a provision or endorsement to indemnify Farrell Lines Incorporated against loss for damages due to or arising out of such operations on account of bodily injuries-or death sustained by any person or persons as in the policy defined and further as respects such injuries sustained by employees of the Contractor, anything in the policy to the contrary notwithstanding.””
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.