Edwards v. Pacific Fruit Express Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably McCrea v. Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District (1970), Doughty v. CSX Transportation, Inc. (1995)
41 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
reviewedEdwards v. Pacific Fruit Express Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 228A · 45 U.S.C. § 351 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Wells Fargo & Co. v. Taylor · Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad · United States v. Southwestern Cable Co. · Robinson 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who operates a railroad as a means of carrying for the public, — that is to say, a railroad company acting as a common carrier.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“activities and facilities intimately associated with the business of common carrier by railroad.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there exist a number of activities and facilities which, while used in conjunction with railroads and closely related to railroading, are yet not railroading itself.”
2 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.