Poff v. Pennsylvania Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 399 · 1946
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. (1964), De Sylva v. Ballentine (1956)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPoff v. Pennsylvania R. R. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Lindgren v. United States · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. McGinnis · New Orleans Co v. Harris · Chicago Co v. Wells-Dickey Trust Co
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every common carrier by railroad * * * shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier * * *, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee’s parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death”.”
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.