American Iron Steel Manufacturing Company v. Seaboard Air Line Railway’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 261 · 1914
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 37 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 364 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green (1946), Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois (1941)
116 federal appellate · 37 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedTredegar Co. v. Seaboard Air Line Ry. (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Thomas v. Western Car Co. · Quincy Co v. Humphreys · Johnson v. Norris · Richmond & I. Const. Co. v. Richmond, N., I. & B. 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 364 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s this delay was the act of law, no one should thereby gain an advantage or suffer a loss.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Principal as well as interest, accruing during a receivership, is paid on debts of the highest dignity, even though what remains is not sufficient to pay claims of a lower rank in full.]”
5 later decisions 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.