Harriman v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
211 U.S. 407 · 1908
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 33 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 284 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1991 · most notably Cobbledick v. United States (1940), Doe v. Bolton (1973)
81 federal appellate · 33 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson · United States v. Steffens · In re Chapman
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 284 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the purposes of the act for which the Commission may exact evidence embrace only complaints for violation of the act, and investigations by the Commission upon matters that might have been made the object of the complaint.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If we felt more hesitation than we do, we still should feel bound to construe the statute not merely so as to sustain its constitutionality, but so as to avoid a succession of constitutional doubts, so far as candor permits.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the commission shall have power to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production [of documents] * * * relating to any matter under investigation,”
2 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.