Jones v. Consolidated Rail Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 590 · 1986
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Debbie Rogers Barnes, Lisa Bean, John Edward Rogers, Co-Executors of the Estate of Edward Doyle Rogers v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp (2000), Preston v. Keith (1991)
37 federal appellate · 9 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) · 45 U.S.C. § 54 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Logarusic v. United States · Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Addie Kelly · Holt v. Alleghany Corp. · Sims v. Central Intelligence Agency
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not error to refuse to give a requested instruction that correctly states the law, as long as the instructions actually given fairly and adequately cover the material issues.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, once it is established that a duty to mitigate is present, the burden nevertheless falls on the wrongdoer to show that the damages were lessened or might have been lessened by the plaintiff.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is error ... to instruct the jury on an issue when there has been insufficient evidence presented to support a jury finding on that issue.”
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.