Bear Brothers Mercantile Company v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1999 · most notably Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1932), News Syndicate Co. v. New York Central Railroad (1927)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Cincinnati Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Haldeman 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * awarding reparation for the past and fixing rates for the future involve the determination of matters essentially different. One is in its' nature private and the other public. One is made by the Commission in its quasi judicial capacity to measure past injuries sustained by a private shipper; the other, in its quasi legislative capacity, to prevent future injury to the public.””
3 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.