Piedmont Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
280 U.S. 469 · 1930
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1969 · most notably Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. (1952), Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States (1939)
32 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 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 Swift & Co. v. United States · Colorado v. United States · Chicago Junction Case · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. · United States v. Los Angeles & Salt Lake 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since plaintiff’s bill was dismissed on the merits when it should have been dismissed for want of jurisdiction, the decree must be reversed with directions to dismiss the bill for want of jurisdiction. Smallwood v. Gallardo, 275 U. S. 56 , 62, 48 S. Ct. 23 , 72 L. Ed. 152 ; Shawnee Sewerage & Drainage Co. v. Stearns, 220 U. S. 462 , 471, 31 S. Ct. 452 , 55 L. Ed. 544 ; Blacklock v. Small, 127 U. S. 96 , 105, 8 S. Ct. 1096 , 32 L. Ed. 70 . Compare United States v. Anchor Coal Co., 279 U. S. 812 , 49 S. Ct. 262 , 73 L. Ed. 971 ; Gnerich v. Rutter, 265 U. S. 388 , 393, 44 S. Ct. 532 , 68 L. Ed. 1068 ; Brownlow v. Schwartz, 261 U. S. 216 , 218, 43 S. Ct. 263 , 67 L. Ed. 620 . “Reversed with direction to dismiss the bill for want of jurisdiction.””
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.