United States v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 244 · 1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1987 · most notably Louisville Bridge Company v. United States (1917), Wolfe v. State of North Carolina (1960)
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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 United States v. Parkersburg Branch R. · United States v. Parkersburg Branch R.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““How far, if at all, the grant of the right to build the bridge under the terms specified in the act of 1862, with no reservation of the right to alter or amend, will operate to limit the power of Congress to directly legislate on the subject of the removal or alteration of the bridge, is a question we are not here concerned with, and therefore, express no opinion upon it””
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.