United States v. P. Koenig Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
270 U.S. 512 · 1926
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 15 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1997 · most notably Assigned Car Cases United States v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co Same (1927), Turner Dennis Lowry Lumber Co v. Chicago M & St Paul Ry Co (1926)
30 federal appellate · 15 district · 11 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 Armour Packing Company v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company v. Harriman Brothers · United States of America v. Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago No 621 Chicago Junction Railway Company
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person . . . to . . . receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect to the transportation of any property in interstate or foreign commerce by any common carrier . . . by any device whatever . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cut up by the roots every form of discrimination, favoritism, and inequality”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.