Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. West Coast Naval Stores Company’s Empirical Analysis
198 U.S. 483 · 1905
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1947 · most notably Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission (1911), German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis (1914)
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWest Coast Naval Stores Co. v. Louisville & N. R. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Munn v. Illinois · Texas Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Memphis Co v. · Western Union Telegraph Company v. Call Publishing Company · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Denver & New Orleans Railroad
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion that the wharf was not a public one, but that it was a mere facility, erected by and belonging to defendant, and used by it, in connection with that part of its road forming an extension from its regular depot and yards in Pensacola, to the wharf, for the purpose of more conveniently procuring the transportation of goods beyond its own line, and that defendant need not share such facility with the public or with any carriers other than those it chose for the purpose of effecting such further transportation.””
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.