Portland Railway Light Power Company v. Railroad Commission of Oregon’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 397 · 1913
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1982 · most notably State of Missouri Southwestern Bell Telephone Co v. Public Service Commission of Missouri (1923), Ohio Valley Water Co. v. Ben Avon Borough (1920)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Armour Packing Company v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · State of Washington Ex Rel Oregon Railroad Navigation Company v. H a Fairchild C S · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. C. H. Albers Commission Co. · Cedar Rapids Gas Light Company v. City of Cedar Rapids S
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This contention cannot be sustained. The rule is that contracts upon subjects which are within the police power, even though valid when made, must be taken to have been entered into in view of the continuing power of the state to control the rates to be charged by public service corporations.””
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.