Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 59 · 1913
Citation profile
310 federal appellate · 95 district · 418 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,183 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Simpson v. Shepard (1913), Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. (1990)
310 federal appellate · 95 district · 418 state decisions — followed in 41 states
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
Relies on Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · The Harrisburg · Gerling v. Baltimore Ohio R Co · New Orleans Gas Co. v. Louisiana Light Co.
Cited together with Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. McGinnis · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Addie Kelly · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Craft · American Railroad Company of Porto Rico v. Federico Didricksen
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 1,183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the damages are such as flow from the deprivation of the pecuniary benefits which the beneficiaries might have reasonably received if the deceased had not died from his injuries * * *.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by [it] in * * * commerce, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee's parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a liability for the loss and damage sustained by relatives dependent upon the decedent. It is therefore a liability for the pecuniary damage resulting to them, and for that only.”
11 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.