Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad v. Borum’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 447 · 1932
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2000 · most notably Still v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. (1961), 54 Cal. App. 2d 549 - Matthews v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1942)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Minneapolis Ry Co v. Rock · Borum v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff's physical condition was not shown to be such as to make his employment inconsistent with the defendant's proper policy or its reasonable rules to insure discharge of its duty to select fit employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Laughter v. . Powell“providing the false statement was of such character that it 'substantially affected the examining surgeon's conclusion that he was in good health and acceptable physical condition'.”
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.