Lies v. Farrell Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 765 · 1981
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Sochin v. Commissioner (1988), Brooktree Corporation v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc (1992)
44 federal appellate · 8 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 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Douglas v. Alabama · Cree v. Goldstein · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts should exercise special care in considering summary judgment in Jones Act cases which require a very low evidentiary threshold for submission to a jury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Causation is generally a question of fact for the jury unless the proof is insufficient to raise a reasonable inference that the act complained of was the proximate cause of the injury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.