Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
194 U.S. 25 · 1904
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 24 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 384 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2007 · most notably Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board (1938), Weeks v. United States (1914)
104 federal appellate · 24 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 29 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 Boyd v. United States · Brown v. Walker · Coe v. Town of Errol · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson
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 384 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not be too narrowly constrained by technical rules as to the admissibility of proof,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Relevancy does not depend upon the conclusiveness of the testimony offered, but upon its legitimate tendency to establish a controverted fact. Relevancy is that 'quality of evidence which renders it properly applicable in determining the truth or falsity of the matter in issue between the parties to a suit'. Bouvier Law Dict. Rawle's Revision, 866.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Said Commission shall in like manner investigate any complaint forwarded by the railroad commissioner or railroad commission of any State or Territory, at the request of such commissioner or commission, and may institute, any inquiry .on its own motion in the same manner and to the same effect as though complaint had been made.”
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.