People of the State of New York Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Erastus C Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Interstate Commerce Commission v. Goodrich Transit Co. (1912), Illinois Central Railroad v. Fuentes (1915)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Coe v. Town of Errol · The Daniel Ball · Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. v. Philadelphia · Osborne v. State of Florida · Diamond Match Company v. Village of Ontonagon
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As shown in the opinion from which we have just quoted, many things have more or less close relation to interstate commerce which are not properly to be regarded as a part of it. If the cab which carries the passengers from the hotel to the ferry landing is engaged in interstate transportation, why is not the porter who carries the traveler’s trunk from his room to the carriage also so engaged? If the cab service is interstate transportation, are the drivers of the cabs and the dealers who supply hay and grain for the horses also engaged in interstate commerce? And where will the limit be placed?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But when service is wholly within a state, it is presumably subject to state control. The burden is on him who asserts that, though actually within, it is legally outside, the state; and, unless the interstate character is established, locality determines the question of jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As we have seen, the cab service is rendered wholly within the state and has no contractual or necessary relation to interstate transportation. It is either preliminary or subsequent thereto. It is independently contracted for, and not necessarily connected therewith.””
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.