Chesapeake Ry Co v. Stapleton’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 587 · 1929
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Sorrell (2007), Rice v. Sioux City Memorial Park Cemetery, Inc. (1955)
31 federal appellate · 42 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 Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · New York Central Railroad v. Winfield
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language of the Federal Employers' Liability Act shows unmistakably that the basis of recovery is negligence and that without such negligence no right of action is given under this act.”
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.