New York Central Hudson River Railroad Company v. Michael Tonsellito’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 360 · 1917
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957), Smither and Company, Inc. v. Franciska T. Coles (1957)
63 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 18 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 New York Central Railroad v. Winfield · Erie Railroad v. Winfield · Erie Railroad v. Welsh · Great Northern Railway Co. v. Knapp
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court of errors and appeals ruled, and it is now maintained, that the right of action asserted by the father existed at common law and was not taken away by the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. But the contrary view, we think, is clearly settled by our recent opinions in New York C. R. Co. v. Winfield, 244 U.S. 147 , 61 L.Ed. [1045], 37 Sup.Ct.Rep. 556 [1917], and Erie Railroad Co. v. Win-field, 244 U.S. 170 , 61 L.Ed. [1057] 37 Sup.Ct.Rep. 556 , (decided May 21, 1917). There we held the act ‘is comprehensive and also exclusive’ in respect of a railroad’s liability for injuries suffered by its employees while engaging in interstate commerce. ‘It establishes a rule or regulation which is intended to operate uniformly in all the states as respects interstate commerce, and in that field it is both paramount and exclusive.’ Congress having declared when, how far, and to whom carriers shall be liable on account of accidents in the specified class, such liability can neither be extended nor abridged by common or statutory laws of the state.””
5 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.