Norfolk Southern Company v. Charles Box

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the roadbed is “compacted earth” on which the ballast and track are placed
• ―The rules for roadbed construction and maintenance do not ‗cover‘ the subject of adjacent walkways.‖
• “The rules for roadbed construction and maintenance do not ‘cover’ the subject of adjacent walkways.”
• “[T]he safety of workers on walkways . . . is distinct from questions about stability and drainage of tracks.”
• laws “covering the subject matter” necessarily narrower than laws “relating to railroad safety”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).