Bell v. Wabash Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.2d 569 · 1932
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2005 · most notably Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (1959), Osbourne v. United States (1947)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 The Harrisburg · Panama Co v. Johnson · Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · Coppage v. State · Davis v. Mills
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The limitation of said section as to time in which the action may be maintained clearly conditions liability, and enters into the right created as a substantial part thereof. It is not a mere statute of limitations pertaining to the remedy. If the action is not brought within the time provided, the right to proceed under the act is ended. In Judge Sanborn’s opinion in Eberhart et al. v. United States, for Use of First Nat. Bank of Belle Fourche, S.D. 8 Cir., 204 F. 884, 890, 891 , he says: ‘An act of Congress, which at the- same time and in itself authorizes or creates a new liability and prescribes the limitations thereof and of its enforcement, makes those limitations conditions of the liability itself. Such an act is not a statute of limitations, and a compliance with the conditions which it prescribes is indispensable to the enforcement of the liability it authorizes or creates * * * because such limitations are conditions of the liability itself and not limitations of the remedy only.’ * * * “In American R. Co. of Porto Rico v. Coronas, 230 F. 545, 546 , L.R.A.1916E, 1095, the Circuit Court of Appeals of the First Circuit, referring to the provision of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, says: ‘The right granted exists only by virtue of the statute, and its scope and effect must be determined therefrom. The language of the act makes it plain that the right and correlative liability thereby established are conditional upon the bringing of the suit within two years from”
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.