Baltimore Philadelphia Steamboat Co v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 408 · 1932
Citation profile
153 federal appellate · 31 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 350 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1980), Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Perini North River Associates (1983)
153 federal appellate · 31 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBaltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co. v. Norton (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jamison v. Encarnacion · Matter of Marhoffer v. . Marhoffer · Texas Employers' Ins. v. Sheppeard · Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co. v. Norton
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 350 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are deemed to be in the public interest and should be construed liberally in furtherance of the purpose for which they were enacted and, if possible, so as to avoid incongruous or harsh results”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(19) Partial loss or partial loss of use: Compensation for permanent partial loss or loss of use of a member may be for proportionate loss or loss of use of the member.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It may not reasonably be assumed that Congress intended to require payment of more compensation for a lesser disability than for a greater one including the lesser. Nothing less than compelling language would justify such a construction of the act.””
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.