Turner Dennis Lowry Lumber Co v. Chicago M & St Paul Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 259 · 1926
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 28 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board (1943), Stark v. Wickard (1944)
96 federal appellate · 28 district · 15 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 Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co. · Swift Company v. Hocking Valley Railway Company · Great Northern Ry Co v. Merchants' Elevator Co · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Rice · Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees v. United States
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All demurrage charges have a double purpose. One is to secure compensation for the use of the ear and of the track which it occupies. The other is to promote ear efficiency by providing a deterrent against undue detention.” Turner, Dennis & Lowry Lumber Co. v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co., 271 U. S. 259 , 46 S. Ct. 530 , 531, 70 L. Ed. 934 .”
7 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.