Reed v. Pennsylvania Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2012 · most notably Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1957), Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957)
55 federal appellate · 23 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
reviewedReed v. Pennsylvania Railroad (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Overstreet v. North Shore Corp. · Pinellas Ice & Cold Storage Co. v. Commissioner · New York Central Railroad v. Winfield
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in any way directly or closely and substantially”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the Act means only transportation and that petitioner is not employed in transportation. See Shanks v. Delaware, L. & W. R. Co., 239 U.S. 556 , 559-560, 36 S.Ct. 188, 190, 60 L.Ed. 436. But the interstate commerce in which respondent is engaged is interstate transportation. If”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the employee that must further or affect commerce, and it is enough if”
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.