Bruce Shanks v. Delaware Lackwanna & Western Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 248 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Stoike v. First National Bank (1943), Southern Pac Co v. Industrial Accident Commission of State of California
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 248 state decisions — followed in 38 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 Swift Company v. United States · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · North Carolina Railroad Company v. James a Zachary · Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Joseph Behrens
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Was the employee at the time of the injury engaged in interstate transportation or in work so closely related to it as to be practically a part of it?””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That every common carrier by railroad while engaged in commerce between any of the several states . . . shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce.” (Part 1, 35 U. S. Stat. at Large, ch. 149,•§ 1, p. 65.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Shanks was not employed in interstate transportation, or in repairing or keeping in usable condition a roadbed, bridge, engine, car, or other instrument then in use in such transportation. What he was doing was altering -the location of a fixture in a machine shop. The connection between the fixture and interstate transportation was remote at best, for the only function of the fixture was to communicate power to machinery used in repairing parts of engines, some of which were used in such transportation.””
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.