Santa Maria v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
81 F.3d 265 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States Surgical Corporation v. Ethicon, Inc. And Johnson & Johnson Hospital Services, Inc., Defendants/cross-Appellants (1997), Manganiello v. City of New York (2010)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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. § 351 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Pelaes v. United States · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Gerry v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court must strive for 'that atmosphere of perfect impartiality which is so much to be desired in a judicial proceeding,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] trial judge must be especially cautious and circumspect in language and conduct during a jury trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A new trial must be granted if the court determines that 'the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, that the damages are excessive, or that, for other reasons, the trial was not fair to the party moving.'”
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.