Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company’s Empirical Analysis
204 U.S. 426 · 1907
Citation profile
705 federal appellate · 287 district · 496 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,377 later decisions (248 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), United States v. Western Pacific Railroad (1956)
705 federal appellate · 287 district · 496 state decisions — followed in 45 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 Claflin v. Houseman · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Mugg Dryden · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Shaw v. Railroad Co.
Cited together with United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Far East Conference v. United States · Nader v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc. · Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Mitchell Coal Coke Company v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
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 2,377 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For if, without previous action by the Commission, power might be exerted by courts and juries generally to determine the reasonableness of an established rate, it would follow that unless all courts reached an identical conclusion a uniform standard of rates in the future would be impossible, as the standard would fluctuate and vary, dependant upon the divergent conclusions reached as to reasonableness by the various courts called upon to consider the subject as an original question. Indeed the recognition of such a right is wholly inconsistent with the administrative power conferred upon the Commission and with the duty, which the statute easts upon that body, of seeing to it that the statutory requirement as to uniformity and equality of rates is observed.””
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless it be found that the preexisting right is so repugnant to the statute that the survival of such right would in effect deprive the subsequent statute of its efficacy; in other words, render its provisions nugatory.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in this chapter contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this chapter are in addition to such remedies.”
20 later decisions 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.