Green v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 1029 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Frontier Refining Inc Plc v. Gorman-Rupp Company Inc M (1998), Toth v. Grand Trunk Railroad (2002)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · National Labor Relations Board v. Gullett Gin Co. · Eichel v. New York Central Railroad · Vannier v. United States · Tipton v. Socony Mobil Oil 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“public policy favors giving the plaintiff a double recovery rather than allowing a wrongdoer to enjoy reduced liability simply because the plaintiff received compensation from an independent source.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our cases have always treated payments from the public treasury, at least when funded by a tax scheme to which the injured party contributed, as from a collateral source.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be more likely to find no liability if they know that plaintiff has received some compensation”
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.