St Louis-San Francisco Ry Co v. Public Service Commission of Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 369 · 1923
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2006
13 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 Mississippi Railroad Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Wharton · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Illinois · Gladson v. State of Minnesota · Chicago Burlington Quincy Railroad Company v. Railroad Commission of Wisconsin
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although interstate commerce is outside of regulation by a state, there may be instances in which a state, in the exercise of a necessary power, may affect that commerce.”
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.