Accardi v. Pennsylvania Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 298 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Alabama Power Co. v. Davis (1977), Coffy v. Republic Steel Corp. (1980)
145 federal appellate · 12 district · 10 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
reviewedAccardi v. Pennsylvania Railroad (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Oakley v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Accardi v. Pennsylvania 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 298 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And no practice of employers or agreements between employers and unions can cut down the service adjustment benefits which Congress has secured the veteran under the Act.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in such manner as to give him such status in his employment as he would have enjoyed if he had continued in such employment continuously from the time of his entering the armed forces until the time of his restoration to such employment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly manifests a purpose and desire on the part of Congress to provide as nearly as possible that persons called to serve their country in the armed forces should, upon returning to work in civilian life, resume their old employment without any loss because of their service to their country.”
5 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.