United States v. Missouri Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
278 U.S. 269 · 1929
Citation profile
395 federal appellate · 61 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 879 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably United States v. American Trucking Associations (1940), Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. (1940)
395 federal appellate · 61 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Caminetti v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · United States v. Wiltberger · Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. v. Stranahan
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 879 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the language of an enactment is clear and construction according to its terms does not lead to absurd or impracticable consequences, the words employed are to be taken as the final expression of the meaning intended.”
23 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.