Eden v. Conrail’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Di Cosala v. Kay (1982), Renz v. Penn Central Corp. (1981)
1 district · 34 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
Relies on Renz v. Penn Central Corp. · Berger v. Shapiro · Handleman v. Cox · Morril v. Morril · Sawicki v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Putting aside the question whether the plaintiff was an invitee or licensee and assuming his status was that of a trespasser, the trial court's charge conflicted with the principle that a possessor of land who has reason to be aware of a trespasser's presence should carry on activities with reasonable care for the trespasser's safety. Thus, the engineer was not entitled to assume that the obstruction on the track was not a human being and the trial court erred in stating that his duty of due care did not arise until after he was aware that a person was on the track. The charge also conflicted with the principle, which I believe was appropriate, that the defendant was obligated to operate the train with reasonable care, including the exercise of reasonable care to discover his presence on the track. [ Id. at 478-79 , 435 A. 2d 556 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“this railroad immunity statute, like all immunity enactments, must be strictly construed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buono v. Scalia
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.