New York Cent Co v. Marcone’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 345 · 1930
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. (1944), Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · North Carolina Railroad Company v. James a Zachary · Erie Railroad v. Winfield · Industrial Accident Commission of State of California v. Payne · Erie Co v. Szary
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thejury, having found, as it might, that the negligence was the cause of the death, might also have inferred that the deceased was guilty of contributory negligence, but the trial judge correctly charged that under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act contributory negligence is not a bar to recovery unless it is the sole cause of the injury or death, and may bo taken into consideration by the jury in fixing the amount of damage.””
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.