Midland Valley R. v. Corn’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.2d 96 · 1927
Citation profile
2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1986
2 district · 3 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 Right of Way Oil Co. v. Gladys City Oil, Gas & Manufacturing Co. · Abercrombie v. Simmons · Uhl v. Ohio River Railroad · Southern Pacific Railroad v. San Francisco Savings Union · Marks v. Atchison, Topeka & 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The railroad company has a title to the lands conveyed for its right of ways for ‘railroad purposes,’ and shall have the exclusive use and possession for such purposes. Uses of the lands by the fee owner shall at all times be compatible with the uses for railroad purposes, and if the fee title owner attempts to use the lands for any purpose which conflicts or interferes with the use and possession of the railroad company for ‘railroad purposes,’ he should be prevented and halted in such attempts.” (Emphasis added.) 21 F.2d at 98-99 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every railway corporation shall, in addition to the powers hereinbefore conferred, have power — “Second. To take and hold such voluntary grants of real estate and other property as shall be made to it to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of its railway; but the real estate received by voluntary grant shall be held and used for the purpose of such grant only, and to purchase and hold, with power to convey, real estate, for the purpose of aiding in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of its railway.””
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.