Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1999
7 federal appellate · 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 801 (Railroad Infrastructure Financing Improvement Act)
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) Within 240 days after the date of enactment of this subdivision, the Commission shall establish, by rule, standards and procedures for determining, in accordance with section 15(9) of this part, whether and when a carrier possesses market dominance over a service rendered or to be rendered at a particular rate or rates. Such rules shall be designed to provide for a practical determination without administrative delay. The Commission shall solicit and consider the recommendations of the Attorney General and of the Federal Trade Commission in the course of establishing such rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Brief of Petitioners in No. 76-2048 at 65. The ease of implementation of the investment presumption must be determined in the course of its application. If the railroads' predictions of impracticality prove accurate, the Commission will, of course, be in a position to institute appropriate modifications. In similar fashion, we believe it is premature at this time to pass on the alleged lack of clarity of key terms in the challenged presumption, such as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the presumptions are not the exclusive means of proving market dominance. If a preponderance of any other relevant evidence indicates that effective competition for the traffic or movement to which the rate applies does not exist, a finding of market dominance will be made. All relevant evidence presented by both sides will be given full consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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