Davies v. Mahanes’s Empirical Analysis
183 F.2d 671 · 1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1999
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 321
Relies on Madden v. Truckaway Corporation · King v. Robinson Transfer Motor Lines, Inc. · Davies v. Mahanes · 54 F. Supp. 397 - Lee v. Acme Freight Lines, Inc.
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.
“In Madden v. Truckaway Corporation, 46 F.Supp. 702, 704 , [D.Minn.1942] District Judge Nordbye said: “I am convinced that, when the language of the process statute is read in connection with the general purposes and objects of the Act, it seems reasonably clear that, when Congress used the language ‘in any proceeding at law or equity brought against such carrier,’ it necessarily implied that such proceedings in law or equity must arise under or be in connection with or in relation to the activities of the carrier in interstate transportation. (Italics ours.) And, again, 46 F.Supp. at page 706 , Judge Nordbye observed: “It will be observed that, in these cases where the court has sustained service, the proceedings were directly related to the defendant’s activities as an interstate carrier. That is, the cause of the action grew out of interstate commerce — the interstate highway transportation — which the Act assumes to regulate and supervise.” (Italics ours.) This philosophy in the interpretation of the Motor Carrier Act impresses us as being eminently sound. Cf. Lee v. Acme Freight Lines, D.C., 54 F.Supp. 397, 398 . Surely, Congress in requiring Mahanes, as an interstate motor carrier, to file the required certificate in Maryland did not thereby intend to subject him to suits in the United States District Court of Maryland based on causes of action, or claims, of every character and arising out of all transactions wheresoever these transactions might arise. Congress passed t”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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