Earl Eilers v. Hercules, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1995 · most notably United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers (1973), United States v. Caldwell (1974)
13 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 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. § 1
Relies on Shields v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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.