Burlington Northern Railroad v. Surface Transportation Board’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 206 · 1997
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel v. Federal Communications Commission (1999), Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board (2005)
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because Congress has expressly delegated to the Board responsibility for determining whether a [carrier's] ... rate is reasonable, the Board is at the zenith of its powers when it exercises that authority, and [is] therefore entitled to particular deference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cf v. Lp“the rates a hypothetical 'stand-alone railroad' would have to charge in order to recover the costs of building a rail system to carry the complaining shipper's traffic and earn a reasonable return.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Assn Amer RR v. STB“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, . . . otherwise [unlawful, or]. . . unsupported by substantial evidence.”
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.