Liberato v. Royer’s Empirical Analysis
270 U.S. 535 · 1926
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1985 · most notably Blanco v. United States (1985), Persing v. Citizens Traction Co. (1928)
7 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
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 Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Geofroy v. Riggs · Hauenstein v. Lynham · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. McCabe · Maiorano v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The Compensation Act offers a plan different from the common law and the workman is free not to come under it. If he does, of course all benefits dependent on the new arrangement are matters of agreement and statutory consequences of agreement and cannot be carried further than the contract and statute go. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That part of the elective Workmen’s Compensation Act of Pennsylvania [Pa. St. 1920, § 21916 et seq.] which denies compensation to alien parents not residents of the United States, is not, as applied to a case of death without negligence or fault, at variance with the Treaty with Italy, which guarantees that the citizens of each country shall receive in the states and territories of the other the 'protection granted by any state or national law which establishes a civil responsibility for injuries or for death caused by negligence or fault and gives to relatives or heirs of. the injured party a right of action, which right shall not be restricted on account of the nationality of said relatives or heirs.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.