Atlantic Coast Line Co v. Standard Oil Co of Kentucky Standard Oil Co Incorporated in Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Turek, Admrx. v. Pennsylvania R. R. Co. (1949), Deep South Oil Co. v. Federal Power Commission (1957)
5 federal appellate · 9 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 18 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 In re Debs · Stafford v. Wallace · Texas New Orleans Railroad Company v. Sabine Tram Company · General Oil Co. v. Crain · Baltimore Co v. Settle
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The important controlling fact in the present controversy, and what characterizes the nature of the commerce involved, is that the plaintiff’s whole plan is to arrange deliveries of all its oil purchases on the seaboard of Florida so that they may all be there stored for convenient distribution in the state -to the 123 bulk stations and to fuel oil plants in varying quantities according to the demand of the plaintiff’s customers, and thence be distributed to subordinate centers and delivery stations, and this plan is being carried out daily. There is neither necessity nor purpose to send the oil through these seaboard storage stations to interior points by immediate continuity of transportation. The seaboard storage stations are the natural places for a change from interstate and foreign transportation to that which is intrastate, and there is nothing in the history of the whole transaction which makes them otherwise, either in intent or in fact. There is nothing to indicate that the destination of the oil is arranged for or fixed in the minds of the sellers beyond the primary seaboard stor-ages of the plaintiff company at Tampa, Port Tampa, Jacksonville or the St. Johns River Terminal.” The court held that the transportation from the seaboard points to the inland points in Florida was an intrastate shipment. The general rules of law are stated as follows: “The question whether commerce is interstate or intrastate must be determined by the essential character of the commerce”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither the sellers, who deliver the oil, nor the railroad company, that aids the delivery of the oil to the storage tanks and tank cars at the seaboard, has anything to do with determining what the ultimate destination of the oil is.... 16”
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.