Gottshall v. Consolidated Rail Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.3d 530 · 1995
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ideal Dairy Farms, Inc. v. John Labatt, Ltd. (1996), Lighthouse Institute for Evangelism, Inc. v. City of Long Branch (2007)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Urie v. Thompson · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Kashif v. United States · Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Buell · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
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.
“within the bounds of conditions under which Conrail crews were expected to work.”
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.