Mileski v. Long Island Rail Road’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 1169 · 1974
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Lightfoot v. Union Carbide Corp. (1997), Bevevino v. Saydjari (1978)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Relies on Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Michigan v. Ohio · Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road · New York Cent Co v. Johnson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he award represents what appears to be an all-time monetary high for loss of an eye and is considerably in excess of other awards rendered during recent years for substantially the same injuries (footnote omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since no objection was made in the present case to the opinions and suggestions expressed by plaintiff's counsel ... and since no request was made for instructions ... the award must stand. Counsel's summation was not so outrageous, or the trial judge's failure to caution the jury with respect to it so fundamental an error, as to mandate reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he problem ... stems from the unavoidably vague measure of damages which the jury is instructed to apply, i.e., fair and reasonable compensation, to the extent that injuries, pain and suffering can be translated into dollars.”
1 later decision 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.