O'connor v. Pennsylvania Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 911 · 1962
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969), Arrowsmith v. United Press International (1963)
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Dick v. New York Life Insurance · Ingram v. United States · Washington v. United States · Matter of Case
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he trial court must view the evidence and all inferences most favorably to the party against whom the motion is made. The reviewing court must do the same . . . .”
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.