Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

46 federal appellate · 16 district ·

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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]t must be remembered that the purpose of the act was to prevent the dangers which must necessarily arise to the employee and to the public from continuing men in a dangerous and hazardous business for periods so long as to render them unfit to give that service which is essential to the protection of themselves and those entrusted to their care”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. United States · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.

2. “It shall be unlawful for any common carrier, its officers, or agents, subject to sections 61-64 of this title to require or permit any employees subject to said sections to be or remain on duty for a longer period than sixteen consecutive hours, and whenever any such employee of such common carrier shall have been continuously on duty for sixteen hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty until he has had at least ten consecutive hours off duty; and no such employee who has been on duty sixteen hours in the aggregate in any twenty-four-hour period shall be required or permitted to continue or again go on duty without having had at least eight consecutive hours off duty * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Janet B. Jopek, of the Estate of Donald N. Jopek, Deceased v. New York Central Railroad Company, a Corporation