Fairport Er Co v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 589 · 1934
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 9 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably Urie v. Thompson (1949), North Haven Board of Education v. Bell (1982)
81 federal appellate · 9 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 14 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 St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. May Taylor W · Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. · Moore v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. · C. W. Cornell v. F. E. Coyne · Patterson v. Bark Eudora E
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Federal Safety Appliance Act, as we already have said and this court repeatedly has ruled, imposes absolute duties upon interstate railway carriers and thereby creates correlative rights in favor of such injured persons as come within its purview; but the right to enforce the liability which arises from the breach of duty is derived from the principles of the common law. The act does not affect the defense of contributory negligence, and, since the case comes here from a state court, the validity of that defense must be determined in accordance with applicable state law. Moore v. C. & O. Ry. Co., 291 U.S. 205, 214 , 54 S.Ct. 402 , 78 L.Ed. 755 et seq., and cases cited; Gilvary v. Cuyahoga Val ley Ry. Co., 292 U.S. 57 , 54 S.Ct. 573 , 78 L.Ed. 1123 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It fairly may be said that the nature of the duty imposed by a statute and the benefits resulting from its performance usually determine what persons are entitled to invoke its protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Floyd v. Thompson“so obviously contribute to the safety of the traveler at crossings that it is hardly probable that Congress could have contemplated their inapplicability to that situation.”
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.