Virginian Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
272 U.S. 658 · 1926
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 213 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,002 later decisions (130 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1948), Yakus v. United States (1944)
143 federal appellate · 213 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 17 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 · Colorado v. United States · Hovey v. McDonald · Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Cited together with Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · Western Paper Makers' Chemical Co. v. United States · Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. v. United States · United States v. Pierce Auto Freight Lines, Inc. · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville 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 1,002 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To consider the weight of the evidence before the Commission, the soundness of the reasoning by which its conclusions were reached, or whether the findings are consistent with those made by it in other eases, is beyond our province. Whether a rate is unjustly discriminatory is a question on which the finding of the Commission, supported hy substantial evidence, is conclusive, unless there was some irregularity in the proceeding or some error in the application of rules of law. Western Paper Makers’ Chemical Co. v. United States, 271 U. S. 268 , 46 S. Ct. 500 , 70 L. Ed. 941 . * * * “The finding of reasonableness, like that of undue prejudice, is a determination of a fact by a tribunal ‘informed by experience.’ Illinois Central R. R. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 206 U. S. 441 , 454, 27 S. Ct. 700 , 51 L. Ed. 1128 . This court has no concern with the correctness of the Commission’s reasoning, with the soundness of its conclusions, or with the alleged inconsistency with findings made in other proceedings before it. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific R. R. Co., 222 U. S. 541 , 32 S. Ct. 108 , 56 L. Ed. 308 .””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if irreparable injury might otherwise result.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o consider the weight of the evidence before the Commission, the soundness of the reasoning by which its conclusions were reached, or whether the findings are consistent with those made by it in other cases, is beyond our province. (Emphasis added.)”
3 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.