Matkins v. Zero Refrigerated Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Ramirez v. Armstrong (1983), 397 Ill. App. 3d 437 - U.S. Bank v. Lindsey (2009)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 49 U.S.C. § 304
Relies on Transamerican Freight Lines, Inc. v. Brada Miller Freight Systems, Inc. · Reed v. Styron · Burruss v. B. M. C. Logging Co. · Proctor v. Colonial Refrigerated Transportation, Inc. · Shipman v. MacCo Corporation
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the principal goals of the ICC regulation imposing responsibility on the carrier was to provide the public with financially responsible carriers. [Citation.] In acknowledgment of that purpose, Proctor reasoned that plaintiff, although an employee of the negligent driver and a passenger in the truck driven by him, was as entitled to the protection intended by the Commission’s regulations as any other member of the traveling public. We feel that plaintiff here, representing the estate of deceased, is entitled to the same protection under the ICC regulations, and to deny him the right to seek recovery from the carrier would undercut one of the primary purposes of the regulatory pattern.” Matkins, 93 N.M. at 516 , 602 P.2d at 200 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.