Smith v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 33 · 1917
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1983 · most notably Oklahoma Press Pub Co v. Walling US News Printing Co (1946), Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Co. (1924)
31 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions
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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson · Texas Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Francis Wilson v. Alexander New C · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baird
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Commission must have power to prevent evasion of its orders and detect in any formal compliance or in the assignment of expenses a ‘possible concealment of forbidden practices.’”
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.