CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Board of Public Works of West Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 537 · 1998
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably In Re: Nvr, Lp, Debtor (1999), Waste Management Holdings, Inc. v. Gilmore (2001)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Papasan v. Allain · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · City of Boerne v. Flores
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n injunction against the future collection of the illegal taxes, even those that already have been assessed, is prospective, and therefore available under the Ex parte Young [sic] doctrine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a future injunction is not made retrospective merely because it recognizes that an ongoing violation of law is the result of a past wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the major purpose of the 4-R Act in general [is] to protect interstate commerce.”
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.