St Louis Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 169 · 1925
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1970 · most notably United States Skinner Eddy Corporation v. McCarl (1927), Sutcliffe Storage & Warehouse Co. v. United States (1947)
31 federal appellate · 13 district · 4 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 United States v. Babcock · United States Arant v. Lane · Willard, Sutherland & Co. v. United States · United States v. Bostwick · Hennessy v. Bacon
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In respect to furnishing transportation, a railroad ordinarily bears to the government the same relation that it does to a private person using its facilities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No action of these officials can bar the right of a claimant to have the Court of Claims determine whether he is entitled to recover under a contract with the government.”
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.