Cox v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 6 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. (1970), Kernan v. American Dredging Co. (1958)
145 federal appellate · 6 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedRoth v. Cox (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Panama Co v. Johnson · Markham v. Cabell · Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. v. McAllister · Just v. Chambers · Arizona v. Anelich
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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Jones Act, in providing that a seaman should have the same right of action as would a railroad employee, does not mean that the very words of the FELA must be lifted bodily from their context and applied mechanically to the specific facts of maritime events”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As welfare legislation ... is entitled to a liberal construction to accomplish its beneficent purposes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e ... note that advancing civilization and social progress have ... include[d] in the general law the principle of the survival of causes of action against deceased tortfeasors, and that such recovery, rather than being exceptional, has now become the rule.... Id., at 210 , 75 S.Ct. at 244 .”
3 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.