Norfolk Southern Railroad v. Chatman’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 276 · 1917
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably Francis v. Southern Pacific Co. (1948), Gooch v. Oregon Short Line Railroad (1922)
26 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedNorfolk Southern R. v. Chatman (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kepner v. United States · Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance · Railroad Company v. Lockwood · Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Voigt · Santa Fe, Prescott & Phœnix Railway Co. v. Grant Bros. Construction Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tariffs must not be made cunningly devised nets in which to entangle unsuspicious or inexperienced shippers,”
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.