Pillsbury v. United Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
152 federal appellate · 16 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Guessefeldt v. McGrath (1952), Metropolitan Stevedore Co. v. Rambo (1997)
152 federal appellate · 16 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPillsbury v. United Engineering Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 906 · 33 U.S.C. § 913 · 33 U.S.C. § 919
Relies on O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · Guderian v. Sterling Sugar & Ry. Co. · Kobilkin v. Pillsbury · Esposito v. Marlin-Rockwell Corporation
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are aware that this is a humanitarian act, and that it should be construed liberally to effectuate its purposes; but that does not give us the power to rewrite the statute of limitations at will, and make what was intended to be a limitation no limitation at all.... While it might be desirable for the statute to provide as [Wheeler] contend[s], the power to change the statute is with Congress, not us.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and used the words advisedly. This view is especially compelling when it is noted that the two words are used in the same sentence of the limitations provision; therein”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The term ‘injury’ means accidental injury * * * arising out of and in the course of employment, and such occupational disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment or as naturally or unavoidably results from such accidental injury, * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.