United States of America v. Union Pacific Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
226 U.S. 470 · 1913
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1963 · most notably United States v. Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (1944), Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945)
6 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 · Northern Securities Company v. United States · Union Pac Ry Co v. Chicago R I P Ry Co Union Pac Ry Co · Harriman v. Northern Securities 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What was said of the Sherman Act in United States v. Union Pacific R. Co., 226 U.S. 470, 477 [ 33 S.Ct. 162 , 57 L.Ed. 306 ] (1913), applies here: ‘So far as is consistent with this purpose a court of equity dealing with such combinations should conserve the property interested involved, but never in such wise as to sacrifice the object and purpose of the statute.’ ””
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.