Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
221 U.S. 612 · 1911
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 34 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 346 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States (1920), National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)
86 federal appellate · 34 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Wilson v. United States · Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. May Taylor W
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 346 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officers or agents in charge of such employ'd at' the time said employe left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen; provided, further, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the crews of wrecking or relief trains.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he length of hours of service has direct relation to the efficiency of the human agencies upon which protection [of] life and property necessarily depends.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If. then, it be assumed, as it must be, that in the furtherance of its purpose Congress can limit the hours of labor of employes engaged in interstate transportation, it follows that this power cannot be defeated either by prolonging the period of service through other requirements of the carriers or by the commingling oí duties relating to interstate and intrastate operations.””
3 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.