Bailey v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 350 · 1943
Citation profile
480 federal appellate · 27 district · 480 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,203 later decisions (88 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969), 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad (1967)
480 federal appellate · 27 district · 480 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Deputy v. du Pont · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton
Cited together with Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Lavender v. Kurn · Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Ellis v. Union Pacific Railroad
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 1,203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To deprive [railroad] workers of the benefit of a jury trial in close or doubtful cases is to take away a goodly portion of the relief which Congress has afforded them.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As stated by this Court in the Patton case [ 179 U.S. 658 , 21 S.Ct. 275, 45 L.Ed. 361] it is a duty which becomes `more imperative' as the risk increases. `Reasonable care becomes, then, a demand of higher supremacy, and yet, in all cases it is a question of the reasonableness of the care, reasonableness depending upon the danger attending the place or the machinery.' * * * That duty of the carrier is a `continuing one' (Kreigh v. Westinghouse & Co., supra, 214 U.S. page 256, 29 S.Ct. page 622, 53 L.Ed. 984) from which the carrier is not relieved by the fact that the employee's work at the place in question is fleeting or infrequent.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ejvery common carrier by railroad while engaging in commerce ... shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce ... for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.”
8 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.