Becker v. Surface Transportation Board’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1241 (Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 1247 · 49 U.S.C. § 10502 · 49 U.S.C. § 10905 · 49 U.S.C. § 10906
Relies on Preseault v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Black v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Birt v. Surface Transportation Board · Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Surface Transportation Board
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a carrier `abandons' a rail line pursuant to authority granted by the [Board], the line is no longer part of the national transportation system, and although the [Board] is empowered to impose conditions on abandonments... as a general proposition [its] jurisdiction terminates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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