Railroad Commission of Louisiana v. Texas & Pacific Railway Company’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 336 · 1913
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably Arkadelphia Milling Co v. St Louis Southwestern Ry Co Hasty (1919), Southern Railway Co. v. Prescott (1916)
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Texas New Orleans Railroad Company v. Sabine Tram Company · Railroad Commission of Ohio v. B a Worthington · Gulf Colorado Santa Fe Railway Company v. State of Texas
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The shipments were in the physical custody of the railroad company until arrival at New Orleans, and thereafter in the physical custody of the steamships, which issued bills of lading therefor to the shippers of the cargo.””
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.