Mellon v. Goodyear’s Empirical Analysis
277 U.S. 335 · 1928
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004 · most notably Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet (1974), D. A. Schulte, Inc. v. Gangi (1946)
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Addie Kelly · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Craft · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. McGinnis · Reading Co. v. Koons
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the overwhelming weight of judicial authority where a statute of the nature of Lord Campbell’s Act in effect gives a right to recover damages for the benefit of dependents, the remedy depends upon the existence in the decedent at the time of his death of a right of action to recover for such injury. Mellon v. Goodyear, supra, 277 U.S. at 344 , 48 S.Ct. at 544 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the right of action is a transmitted right or an original right; whether it be created by a survival statute or by a statute creating an independent right, the general consensus of opinion seems to be that the gist and foundation of the right in all cases is the wrongful act, and that for such wrongful act but one recovery should be had, and that, if the deceased had received satisfaction in his lifetime, either by settlement and adjustment or by adjudication in the courts, no further right of action existed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Considering the repeated holdings of many courts of last resort, the declarations by this court, and the probable ill consequences to both employees and employers which would follow the adoption of the contrary view, we must conclude that the settlement and release relieved the Director General from all liability for damages consequent upon the injuries received by Goodyear and his death.” 277 U.S. 335 at page 345, 48 S.Ct. 541 , at page 544.”
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.