Alpha Corporation v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 642 · 1930
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. (1932), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Smith (1939)
51 federal appellate · 18 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCain v. Alpha S. S. Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jamison v. Encarnacion · Cain v. Alpha S. S. Corp.
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The complaint charged and the evidence was sufficient to warrant a finding that Jackson was authorized by defendants to direct plaintiff about his work and that, for the purpose of reprimanding him for tardiness and compelling him to work, Jackson struck plaintiff with a wrench and seriously injured him. (Id. at 642-43, 50 S.Ct. at 443).”
2 later decisions 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.