United States v. Abilene & S Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
17 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Beaumont Ry Co v. United States (1930), Jaffe v. State Department of Health (1949)
17 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 29 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.
Relationships
Relies on Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · United States Bilokumsky v. Tod · Akron Ry Co v. United States · Chicago Junction Case
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Whether it [the court] should have denied relief until all possible administrative remedies had been exhausted was a matter which called for the exercise of its judicial discretion. We cannot say that, in denying the motion to dismiss, the discretion was abused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But, in the absence of a stay, the order of a division is operative; and the filing of an application for a rehearing does not relieve the carrier from the duty of observing an order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under these circumstances, what is here called a rehearing resembles an appeal to another administrative tribunal.”
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.