Hilton v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 1978 · most notably 5 Ill. 2d 135 - Hall v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. (1955), Dempsey v. Thompson (1952)
76 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.
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 54 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Joice v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad · Hungate v. Hudson · Orr v. Shell Oil Co. · Tatum v. Gulf, Mobile Ohio Railroad Co. · Zichler v. St. Louis Public Service Co.
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.