South Covington Cincinnati Street Railway Company v. City of Covington J B’s Empirical Analysis

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18 federal appellate · 17 district · 31 state decisions

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1. ““If Covington can regulate these matters, certainly Cincinnati can, and interstate business might be impeded by conflicting and varying regulations in this respect, with which it might be impossible to comply. On one side of the river one set of regulations might be enforced, and on the other side quite a different set, and both seeking to control a practically continuous movement of cars. As was said in Hall v. De Cuir, 95 U. S. 485 , 489 [ 24 L. Ed. 597 ], ‘commerce cannot flourish in the midst of such embarrassments.’ We need not stop to consider whether Congress hás undertaken to regulate such interstate transportation as this, for it is clearly within its power to do so, and absence of federal regulation does not give the power to the state to make-rules which so necessarily control the conduct of interstate commerce as do-those just considered.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Swayne & Hoyt, Inc. v. Barsch · Landon v. Public Utilities Commission