Kurn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably Kurn v. State (1937), Alabama Public Service Commission v. Atlantic Coast Line R. (1950)
1 district · 30 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 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Wharton · Seward v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad · Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. State · Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. State · Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘adequate or reasonable facilities’ is not in its nature capable of exact definition. It is a relative expression, and has to be considered as calling for such facilities as might be fairly demanded, regard being had, among other things, to the size of the place, the extent of the demand for transportation, the cost of furnishing the additional accommodation asked for, and to all other facts which would have a bearing upon the question of convenience and cost.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Applying the rules announced in the above authorities to the facts shown herein, we are of the opinion that the order of the commission denying the application of the carrier to provide a merchant agent at Le Flore, Okla., is neither reasonable nor just, in that it requires the carrier to expend almost the entire cash revenue derived from the station in the maintenance of a full-time agency, a service required neither in the safety, operation, nor expediting of the trains operated by the carrier and which service is only one of slightly more convenience than the proposed substituted service. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lowden v. State““The prima facie presumption of the reasonableness, justness and correctness of an order of the Corporation Commission obtaining by reason of section 22, art. 9, of the Constitution, is subject to be overcome or rebutted by the facts in the record, as weighed and found by this court in reviewing the same.””
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.