Michigan Public Utilities Commission v. Duke’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 570 · 1925
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 59 district · 185 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 396 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999 · most notably Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934), Sproles v. Binford (1932)
40 federal appellate · 59 district · 185 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Block v. Hirsh · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis Co. · German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey
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 396 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it is beyond the power of the State by legislative fiat to convert property used exclusively in the business of a private carrier into a public utility, or to make the owner a public carrier, for that would be taking private property for public use without just compensation, * * * »”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“serve all, up to the capacity of his facilities without discrimination and for reasonable pay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Plaintiff is a private carrier. * * * He has no power of eminent domain or franchise under the State, and no greater right to nse the highways than any other member of the body public. He does not undertake to carry for the public and does not devote his property to any public use. He has done nothing to give rise to a duty to carry for others. The public is not dependent on him or the use of his property for service, .and has no right to call on him for transportation.””
2 later decisions 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.