Northern Coal & Dock Co. v. Strand’s Empirical Analysis
278 U.S. 142 · 1928
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 8 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett (1940)
46 federal appellate · 8 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Panama Co v. Johnson · Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart · Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co. v. Rohde · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“direct relation to commerce and navigation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Every common carrier by railroad while engaging in [interstate] commerce . . . shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, . . . for such injury ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, . . .””
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.