Slaughter v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.2d 912 · 1962
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Buell (1987), Lancaster v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1985)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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
Relies on Urie v. Thompson · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · Ellis v. Union Pacific Railroad · Bridges v. United States · Jamison v. Encarnacion
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an assault committed by an employee in the course of the discharge of his duties and in furtherance of the work of the employer's business can serve as the basis for liability under [FELA]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.