Northern Pac Ry Co v. Department of Public Works of Washington’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably City & County of San Francisco v. Boyd (1943), Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1949)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission · Wilcox v. Consolidated Gas Co. · Chicago Junction Case · United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An order based upon a finding made without evidence, ... or upon a finding made upon evidence which clearly does not support it, ... is an arbitrary act against which courts afford relief.”
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.