Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1,057 federal appellate · 71 district · 878 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,584 later decisions (111 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Donnelly v. DeChristoforo (1974), The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969)
1,057 federal appellate · 71 district · 878 state decisions — followed in 41 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. § 53 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Urie v. Thompson · Lavender v. Kurn · Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Brady v. Southern Railway Co.
Cited together with Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Lavender v. Kurn · Urie v. Thompson · Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. · Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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 2,584 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this statute the test of a jury case is simply whether the proofs justify with reason the conclusion that employer negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury or death for which damages are sought.”
251 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very common carrier by railroad ... shall be liable in damages ... for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee,”
13 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.