Ellis v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
237 U.S. 434 · 1915
Citation profile
167 federal appellate · 6 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 341 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Cobbledick v. United States (1940), Stafford v. Wallace (1922)
167 federal appellate · 6 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Smyth v. Ames
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 341 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“end of a proceeding begun against the witness”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the definition of transportation includes such instrumentalities as the Armour Car Lines lets to the railroads”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Armour Car Lines not being subject to regulation by the Commission, its position was simply that of a witness interested in but a stranger to the inquiry. . . . Therefore the matter to be considered here . is how far an ordinary witness could be required to answer the questions that are before the court. [ 237 U.S. at 445 , 35 S.Ct. at 647 , emphasis added]”
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.