Vandalia Co v. Schnull’s Empirical Analysis
255 U.S. 113 · 1921
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1952 · most notably 9 F. Supp. 864 - Union Stock Yards Co. of Omaha, Ltd. v. United States (1934), Kansas City Light & Power Co. v. Midland Realty Co. (1936)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 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 Smyth v. Ames · Brooks-Scanlon Co. v. Railroad Commission · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. North Dakota ex rel. McCue · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Conley · Missouri v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““has no arbitrary power over rates; * * * and that the state may not select a commodity or class of traffic, and instead of fixing what may be deemed to be reasonable compensation for its carriage, compel the carrier to transport it either at less than cost, or for a compensation that is merely nominal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the revenue from all of the intrastate business of the Railroad Company is to be taken into account, and, if it be sufficient to remunerate the Railroad Company, the particular rates, though un-remunerative, are nevertheless legal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the revenue from traffic to which the rates apply is the test of their legality and any deficiency in them cannot be made up by rates on some other traffic. * * *””
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.