Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Eubank’s Empirical Analysis
184 U.S. 27 · 1902
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1976 · most notably Simpson v. Shepard (1913), Houston East West Texas Railway Company v. United States (1914)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 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 Charles Cotting v. A a Godard · Hall v. DeCuir · Wabash St Ry Co v. State of Illinois · Henderson Bridge Co. v. Kentucky · New York Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We fully recognize the rule that the effect of a state constitutional provision or of any state legislation upon interstate commerce must be direct and not merely incidental and unimportant; but it seems to us that where the necessary result of enforcing the provision may be to limit or prohibit the transportation of articles from without the state to a point within it, or from a point within to a point without the state, interstate commerce is thereby affected, and may be thereby to a certain extent directly regulated, and in that event the effect of the provision is direct and imi>ortant, and not a mere incident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In tlms fixing the interstate rate. Congress may most seriously interfere with or regulate interstate commerce, but that it has the right to do; and, on the other hand, the state by such a statute regulates the local rate, but that it has the right to do. Congress does not, directly or indirectly, interfere with local rates, by adopting their sum in the interstate rate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““1 do not suppose it will be seriously contended that the defendant can, invalidate all the local rates which the Legislature of Kentucky may see fit to enforce, by simply saying that outside of the state it somewhere touches a competitive point, and is forced to reduce its interstate rates by reason of the competition there existing.””
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.