Edwards v. Cuba Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 628 · 1925
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 25 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably James v. United States (1961), Detroit Edison Co. v. Commissioner (1943)
101 federal appellate · 25 district · 10 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 Eisner v. Macomber · Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka · Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert · Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“profits or gains from the use or operation of the railroad.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were not made for services rendered or to be rendered”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The subsidy payments were proportionate to mileage completed; and this indicates a purpose to reimburse plaintiff for capital expenditures .... Neither the laws nor the contracts indicate that the money subsidies were to be used for the payment of dividends, interest or anything else properly chargeable to or payable out of earnings or income.”
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.