Wilson v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, & Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 1347 · 1988
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Harbin v. Burlington Northern Railroad (1990), Gallose v. Long Island Railroad (1989)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 · 45 U.S.C. § 53
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an act is not 'necessarily incident to' or 'an integral part of' employment when it is 'undertaken by an employee for a private purpose and having no causal relationship with his employment.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“FELA is a broad remedial statute, and ha[s] adopted a 'standard of liberal construction in order to accomplish [Congress'] objects.' " Atchison T. & S.F.R. Co. v. Buell, 480 U.S. 557 , 562 (1987) (quoting Urie v. Thompson, 337 U.S. 163 , 180 (1949)). "[U]nder the FELA, 'the 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....' " Harbin v. Burlington Northern R. Co., 921 F.2d 129 , 131 (7th Cir.1990) (quoting Rogers v. Missouri Pac. R.R. Co., 352 U.S. 500 , 506 (1957)). Thus, "[t]he evidence required for a finding of negligence dictates a corresponding 'slightest' hurdle for avoiding a directed verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o define `scope of employment,' a federal court should apply common law principles, as interpreted by other federal courts.”
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.