CSX Transportation, Inc. v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
564 U.S. 685 · 2011
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources · Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo · McNally v. United States · Urie v. Thompson
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'proximate cause' is shorthand for a concept: Injuries have countless causes, and not all should give rise to legal liability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“' ... is simply this: '[B]ecause of convenience, of public policy, of a rough sense of justice, the law arbitrarily declines to trace a series of events beyond a certain point.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in comparison to tort litigation at common law, 'a relaxed standard of causation applies under FELA.' " CSX Transp. , 564 U.S. at 692 , 131 S.Ct. 2630 (quoting Consol. Rail Corp. v. Gottshall , 512 U.S. 532 , 542-43, 114 S.Ct. 2396 , 129 L.Ed.2d 427 (1994) ). "Under [FELA] the test of a jury case is simply whether the proofs justify with reason the conclusion that employer negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury or death for which damages are sought.”
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.