Cochran v. Pittsburgh & L. E. R.’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.2d 769
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1961
9 federal appellate · 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 1
Relies on Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Inland & Seaboard Coasting Co. v. Tolson · New Orleans Co v. Harris · Looney v. Metropolitan Railroad · Southern Railway-Carolina Division v. Bennett
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a rule which permits or requires an inference of negligence to be drawn from the fact of an accident plus the circumstances which characterize the accident. It is an evidential inference, which will carry a case to the jury, but is not binding upon the jury * * *.”
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.