Beadle v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 124 · 1936
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 3 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1995 · most notably Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. (1944), Garrett v. Co (1942)
84 federal appellate · 3 district · 44 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.
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 53 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on The Osceola · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty · Arizona v. Anelich · Carlisle Packing Co. v. Sandanger
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contributory negligence is not a defense to a suit brought either under the Jones Act or under the maritime law for injuries attributable to negligently defective equipment. Under both it is ground only for apportionment of the damage”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rules, peculiar to admiralty, of liability for injuries to seamen or others, are as applicable when the injury occurs upon a vessel in port as when at sea * * *.”
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.