Detroit Mackinac Railway Company v. Michigan Railroad Commission’s Empirical Analysis
235 U.S. 402 · 1914
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 15 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1973 · most notably Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Railway Co. (1951), Wadley Southern Railway Company v. State of Georgia (1915)
8 federal appellate · 15 district · 10 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 Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Green Garrett · San Diego Land & Town Co. v. Jasper · Bacon v. Rutland Railroad
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the Constitution of Michigan, art. II, separates legislative, executive and judicial powers, and so plainly forbids conferring those given by the Virginia Constitution to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, that in the absence of a clear decision by the state court we should not believe that the Legislature attempted to grant or could grant such powers to the courts of Michigan.””
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.