McCluskey v. Marysville & Northern Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 36 · 1917
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Arkadelphia Milling Co v. St Louis Southwestern Ry Co Hasty (1919), United Leather Workers International Union, Local Lodge or Union No. 66 v. Herkert & Meisel Trunk Co. (1924)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNordgard v. Marysville & N. Ry. Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Coe v. Town of Errol · The Daniel Ball · Texas New Orleans Railroad Company v. Sabine Tram Company · General Oil Co. v. Crain
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “When the products of the farm or the forest are collected and brought in from the surrounding country to a town or station serving as an entrepot for that particular region, whether on a. river or a line of railroad, such products are not yet exports, nor are they in process of exportation, nor is exportation begun until they are committed to the common carrier for transportation out of the state to the state of their destination, or have started on their ultimate passage to that state. Until then it is reasonable to regard them as not only within the state of their origin, but as a part of the general mass of property of that state, subject to its jurisdiction.””
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.