Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
313 federal appellate · 43 district · 311 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 899 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Hanna v. Plumer (1965)
313 federal appellate · 43 district · 311 state decisions — followed in 34 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 55 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Bailey v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc. · Garrett v. 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 899 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nly if federal law controls can the federal Act be given that uniform application throughout the country essential to effectuate its purposes.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to trial by jury is too substantial a part of the rights accorded by the Act to permit it to be classified as a mere 'local rule of procedure'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'railroad employees a right to recover just compensation for injuries negligently inflicted by their employers.'”
9 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.