Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 88 · 1913
Citation profile
267 federal appellate · 138 district · 380 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,262 later decisions (130 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board (1938), Goldberg v. Kelly (1970)
267 federal appellate · 138 district · 380 state decisions — followed in 45 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 Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · Chin Yow v. United States · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad · Low Wah Suey v. Backus
Cited together with Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Chicago Junction Case · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · Morgan v. United States · Morgan v. United States
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 1,262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * and at the same time imposed the duty of deciding in accordance with the facts proved.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'substantial evidence to support the order.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When made, the increase was not because of the absence of water competition, but to make the sum of the locals correspond with the through rates. Under the circumstances, the maintenance of these low rates, after the water •competition disappeared, tends to support the theory that, by an increase oí business or other cause, they had become reasonable and compensatory.””
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.