St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Craft’s Empirical Analysis
237 U.S. 648 · 1915
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 39 district · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 496 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. (1990), Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. (2001)
160 federal appellate · 39 district · 176 state decisions — followed in 34 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 · Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Gerling v. Baltimore Ohio R Co
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 496 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although originating in the same wrongful act or neglect, the two claims are quite distinct, no part of either being embraced in the other. One is for the wrong to the injured person, and is confined to his personal loss and suffering before he died, while the other is for the wrong to the beneficiaries, and is confined to their pecuniary loss through his death. One begins where the other ends, and a recovery upon both in the same action is not a double recovery for a single wrong but a single recovery for a double wrong.” 170 Ohio St. at 521 , 166 N.E.2d at 768 , quoting St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern R. R. v. Craft, 237 U.S. 648 , 658, 35 S. Ct. 704 , 59 L.Ed. 1160 (1915).”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Any right of action given by this act to a person suffering injury shall survive 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, but in such cases there shall be only one recovery for the same injury."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . short periods of insensibility which sometimes intervene between fatal injuries and death.”
6 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.