Capital Transit Co. v. Safeway Trails, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.2d 708 · 1953
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1973
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co. · Frost v. Corporation Commission · Order of Railway Conductors of America v. Pitney · Thompson v. Texas Mexican Railway Co. · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The District of Columbia Code 1951, § 44-201, prohibits the establishment of a bus line, competitive with Transit, over a given route on a fixed schedule unless the Commission has- issued a certificate to the competing carrier that its line is necessary for the convenience of the public.””
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.