Pullen v. Nickens’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Spencer v. Commonwealth (1990), Colby v. Boyden (1991)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 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 Federal Trade Commission v. Fred Meyer, Inc. · Bly v. Rhoads · Swaney v. Peden Steel Company · Cape Charles Flying Service, Inc. v. Nottingham · Russo v. Commonwealth
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person cannot, by the adoption of private rules, fix the standard of his duty to others. That is fixed by law, either statutory or common. Private rules may require of employ[e]es less or more than is required by law; and whether a given course of conduct is negligent, or the exercise of reasonable care, must be determined by the standard fixed by law, without regard to any private rules of the party.”
2 later decisions 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.