Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Riverside Mills’s Empirical Analysis
219 U.S. 186 · 1911
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 38 district · 245 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 528 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934)
84 federal appellate · 38 district · 245 state decisions — followed in 36 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 · Swift Company v. United States · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n
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 528 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reduced to the final results, the Congress has said that a receiving [i.e., initial] carrier, in spite of any stipulation to the contrary, shall be deemed, when it receives property in one state, to be transported to a point in another, involving the use of a connecting carrier for some part of the way, to have adopted such other carrier as its agent, and to incur carrier liability throughout the entire route, with the right to reimbursement for a loss not due to his own negligence.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any common carrier, railroad or transportation company # # # receiving property for transportation from a'point in one State * # * to a point in another State # * shall be hable to the lawful owner thereof for any loss, damage or injury to such property caused by it or by any common carrier, railroad or transportation company to which such property may be delivered * # # .””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The indisputable effect of the Carmack amendment is to hold the initial carrier engaged in interstate commerce and ‘receiving property for transportation from a point in one state to a point in another state’ as having contracted for through carriage to the point of destination, using the lines of connecting carriers as its agents.” Atlantic Coast Line R, Co. v. Riverside Mills, supra, 219 U.S. at page 196 , 31 S.Ct. at page 166”
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.