Sinclair v. Long Island Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 74 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Tufariello v. Long Island Rail Road (2006), Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corp. (1998)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Lavender v. Kurn · Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Dade v. Cannatella
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual or constructive notice to the employer of the defective condition that caused the injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every common carrier by railroad ... shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such earlier in such commerce ... for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce . . . for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier.”
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.