Interstate Commerce Commission v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"motor vehicles used in carrying property consisting of * * * agricultural * * * commodities (not including manufactured products thereof), if such motor vehicles are not used in carrying any other property, or passengers, for compensation."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lester C. Newton Trucking Company v. United States · Fawley Motor Lines, Incorporated, and Cross-Appellee v. Cavalier Poultry Corporation, and Cross-Appellant

2. ““ * * * This construction also makes war on the very interstate transportation which the exemption was plainly intended to foster and encourage. It is its purpose to free the transportation interstate of the favored commodities, particularly agricultural products, from the general regulation of interstate commerce by the Commission except as to fitness of drivers and trucks. A like favor has been shown to agricultural commodities in numerous other Acts of the period. To get a certificate or permit from the Commission involves much delay, inconvenience and expense, and often disappointment. Relief from this is offered in order to aid the prompt and free transportation of the named commodities, which transportation is usually seasonal and intermittent, but often urgent because it is of perishables, as fruits, vegetables and fish. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 113 F. Supp. 599 - Interstate Commerce Commission v. Allen E. Kroblin, Inc.