45 U.S.C. § 58
Section 58 · Duty or liability of common carriers and rights of employees under other acts not impaired
This is the Federal Employers' Liability Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Fashauer v. New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Inc. (1995)
Most recently applied in Bynum v. Norfolk Southern Ry. Co. (September 2014)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing in this chapter shall be held to limit the duty or liability of common carriers or to impair the rights of their employees under any other Act or Acts of Congress.