Atchison Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 768 · 1929
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1959 · most notably United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. (1935), Board of Trade of Kansas City Mo v. United States (1942)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co · Virginian Ry Co v. United States · United States v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Akron Ry Co v. United States · Texas New Orleans Railroad Company v. Sabine Tram Company
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To make an additional charge for having brought merchandise into a city, if it should afterwards be shipped out, is on its face unreasonable. And it is discriminatory to make that additional charge only if the outbound shipment is over one of several possible railroads. * * * “In ordering cancellation of the proposed tariff the Commission exercised only its function of determining the reasonableness of rates. It made a rate order to which the matter of routing was merely an incident.””
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.