Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States of America’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Hotel Casey Co. v. Ross (1941), Grime v. Department of Public Instruction (1936)
8 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cincinnati Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Rassmussen v. United States · Binns v. United States · The Coquitlam v. United States · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati N O T P Ry 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Interstate Commerce Commission is purely an administrative body. ... It may exercise judgment and discretion, and, it may be, cannot be controlled in either. But if it absolutely refuse to act, deny its power, from a misunderstanding of the law, it cannot be said to exercise discretion. Give it that latitude and yet give it the power to nullify its most essential duties, and how would its non-action be reviewed?””
1 later decision 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.