Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Mugg Dryden’s Empirical Analysis
202 U.S. 242 · 1906
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 13 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 430 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company (1907), Adams Express Co. v. Croninger (1913)
93 federal appellate · 13 district · 180 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Gulf Ry Co v. Hefley · Southern Railway Co. v. Harrison · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Mugg & Dryden
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 430 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The clear effect of the decision was to declare that one who has obtained from a common carrier transportation of goods from one state to another at a rate, specified in the bill of lading, less than the published schedule rates filed with and approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in force at the time, whether or not he knew that the rate ^obtained was less than the schedule rate, is not entitled to recover the goods, or damages for their detention, upon the tender of payment of the amount of charges named in the bill of lading, or of any sum less than the schedule charges; in other words, that whatever may be the rate agreed upon, the carrier’s lien -on the goods is, by force of the act of Congress, for the amount fixed by the published schedule of rates and charges, and this lien can be discharged, and the consignee can become entitled to the goods only by the payment, or tender of payment, of such amount. Such is now the supreme law, and by it this and the courts of all other states are bound.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A common carrier may exact the legal rate for an interstate shipment, as shown by its printed and published schedule on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission and posted in the stations of such carrier, as required by the interstate commerce act, although a lower rate was quoted by the carrier to the shipper, who shipped under the lower rate so quoted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.