Adkins v. Seaboard System Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 340 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Adams v. CSX Transportation, Inc. (1990), Netto v. Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corp.) (1989)
17 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Buell · Marathon Oil Co. v. United States · Lancaster v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has not been applied to any intentional torts lacking any physical dimension such as assault.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly one for intentional infliction of emotional distress,”
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.