Crane v. Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 19 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 379 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Sorrell (2007), CSX Transportation, Inc. v. McBride (2011)
97 federal appellate · 19 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 21 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. § 1 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 53 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · O'Donnell v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · Affolder v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis 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 379 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“injured employee [must] prove only the [SAA] violation and thus is relieved of the burden of proving negligence”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We recognize the injustice of denying recovery to a nonemployee which would not be denied to an employee performing the same task in the same manner as did petitioner. But it is for Congress to amend the statute to prevent such injustice. It is not permitted the Court to rewrite the statute.” 395 U.S. at 167 , 89 S.Ct. at 1709 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier [engaged in interstate commerce by railroad] to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any ear used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.