Missouri Pac Co v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis

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16 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions

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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We submit, under the foregoing authorities, that upon the termination of Federal control, the Railroad Commission’s regulation or order requiring the defendants to observe the Orange to Galveston rate as maximum from Orange to Houston, which regulation or order was theretofore ‘in force and still unaffected by any action of the authority which made’ it, became revived and assumed full force and effect and was binding on the defendants by the ‘mere cessation of the suspension which had been effected through Federal control’. In other words, that on the termination of Federal control the said order of the Railroad Commission of Texas was revived and thereby the 10c per 100 lb. rate again became applicable on shipments of lumber moving between Orange and Houston. “The only question left is what rate was in effect on lumber in carloads from Orange to Galveston during the time these shipments moved. On August 21, 1920, when the Railroad Commission of Texas promulgated its circular No. 5326 and thereby authorized all railroads in Texas to increase ‘all existing rates’ 33⅛%, the existing rate on lumber, in carloads from Orange to Galveston, was 7½0 per 100 lbs. Increasing the 7½0 rate 33⅝% made the rate 10 cents per 100 lbs. Ahd the 10-eent rate thus established was not affected by the Interstate Commerce Commission’s order in Docket No. 11764 reported in 60 I. C. C. 421.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. v. Beaumont, S. L. & W. Ry. Co.