Russo v. Matson Navigation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 1018 · 1973
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Phillips v. Western Company of North America (1992), Lamphere v. Brown University (1979)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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. § 55 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Gypsum Carrier, Inc. v. Handelsman · United States v. Price · Haughton v. Blackships, Inc. · 322 F. Supp. 92 - Hall v. Minnesota Transfer Railway Company
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this chapter shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any such action brought against a common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this chapter, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which that action was brought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any sum ... contributed.” Therefore, any setoff to which [the employer] ... might be entitled must be limited to the amount it has contributed to the pension plan. [The employer] ... claims, however, that this amount is far in excess of the benefits being received by Russo. The issue, then, is whether the pension benefits come from a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“look to ' "the purpose and nature of the fund and of the payments”
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.