Van Schaick v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.2d 987 · 1941
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1987 · most notably New Haven Inclusion Cases (1970), St. Joe Paper Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (1954)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Fosdick v. Schall · Miltenberger v. Logansport Railway Co. · Southern Railway Company v. Carnegie Steel Company
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reorganized road shall be a living, not a dying, railroad enterprise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rigidly limited to what is reasonably and necessarily required to adequately maintain the railroad as a going concern and enable it to perform its public functions.”
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.