United States of America v. Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis’s Empirical Analysis
224 U.S. 383 · 1912
Citation profile
184 federal appellate · 102 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 606 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962), Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1979)
184 federal appellate · 102 district · 24 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 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States · Northern Securities Company v. United States · United States of America v. American Tobacco 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 606 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“access to essential facilities [must] be afforded to competitors `upon such just and reasonable terms and regulations as will, in respect of use, character and cost of service, place every such company upon as nearly an equal plane as may be with respect to expenses and charges as that occupied by the proprietary companies.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen, as here, the inherent conditions are such as to prohibit any other reasonable means of entering the city, the combination of every such facility under the exclusive ownership and control of less than all of the companies under compulsion to use them violates both the first and second sections of the [Sherman Act].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“geographical and topographical situation [of St. Louis, it was,] as a practical matter, impossible for any railroad company to pass through, or even enter St. Louis, so as to be within reach of its industry and commerce, without using the facilities entirely controlled by”
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.