Missouri Pacific Railway Company v. Larabee Flour Mills Company’s Empirical Analysis
211 U.S. 612 · 1909
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission (1911), Simpson v. Shepard (1913)
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Plessy v. Ferguson · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · Johnson v. Southern Pacific 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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the mere grant by Congress to the commission of certain national powers ... does not of itself and in the absence of action by the commission interfere with the authority of the State to make those regulations conducive to the welfare and convenience of its citizens...." (p. 623.)”
6 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.