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Erie Railroad v. Collins

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
253 U.S. 77
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
24 of 24
Treatment dates
1932
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Erie Railroad v. Collins was overruled by Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Industrial Commission. The Supreme Court expressly rejected Collins's rule that operating a pump supplying interstate trains counted as interstate commerce under the Federal Employers' Liability Act.
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Its separate discussion of damages for humiliation from a physical injury was not at issue there. The confirmed treatment is listed below. All 24 flagged citations have been read.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

24 citations to Erie Railroad v. Collins sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court overruled Collins's rule that supplying water to interstate locomotives placed the railroad employee within the Federal Employers' Liability Act.

    Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Industrial Commission · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The Szary case is subject to the same criticism, since it simply followed the Collins case. Both cases are out of harmony with the general current of the decisions of this court since the Shanks case, Chicago & North Western Ry. Co. v. Bolle, ante, p. 74, and they are now definitely overruled.
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