Baltimore Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
277 U.S. 291 · 1928
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1971 · most notably Baltimore Co v. United States (1929), Missouri Pac Co v. Norwood (1931)
7 federal appellate · 15 district ·
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 Akron Ry Co v. United States · United States of America v. Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis · United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co. · Terminal Railroad Ass'n v. United States · Brimstone Canal Co 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘practice,’ considered generally and without regard to context, is not capable of useful construction. If broadly used, it would cover everything carriers are accustomed to do. Its meaning varies so widely and depends so much upon the connection in which it is used that Congress will be deemed to have intended to confine its application to acts or things belonging to the same general class as those meant by the words associated with it.” Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. United States, 1928, 277 U.S. 291, 299-300 , 48 S.Ct. 520, 522 , 72 L.Ed. 885 .”
1 later decision 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.