Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 605 · 1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1982 · most notably Frank v. Mangum (1915), Ohio Valley Water Co. v. Ben Avon Borough (1920)
2 federal appellate · 29 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Smyth v. Ames · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · Wilcox v. Consolidated Gas Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. North Dakota ex rel. McCue · State of Washington Ex Rel Oregon Railroad Navigation Company v. H a Fairchild C 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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The passenger traffic is one of the main departments of the company’s business; it has its separate equipment, its separate organization and management, and, of necessity, its own rates. In making a reasonable adjustment of the carrier’s charges, the state is under no obligation to secure the same rate of return from each of the two principal departments of business, passenger and freight; but the state may not select either of these departments for arbitrary control.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t is not necessary that there should be uniform rates or the same percentage of profit on every sort of business; and .. . there is abundant room for reasonable classification and the adaptation of rates to the various groups of services.””
2 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.