Jamison v. Encarnacion’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 635 · 1930
Citation profile
163 federal appellate · 33 district · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 515 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Urie v. Thompson (1949)
163 federal appellate · 33 district · 156 state decisions — followed in 24 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 · Panama Co v. Johnson · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · Miller v. Robertson
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 515 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Act is not to be narrowed by refined reasoning. It is to be construed liberally to fulfill the purposes for which it was enacted.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very common carrier by railroad ... shall be liable in damages to [employees] ... for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending the common-law right or remedy in case of personal injury to railway employees shall apply; * * * ””
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.