Railroad Commission of Wisconsin v. Maxcy’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 82 · 1930
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006 · most notably Ford Motor Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (1939), Los Angeles Gas Electric Corporation v. Railroad Commission of California (1933)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Virginian Ry Co v. United States · Baltimore Co v. United States · State of Ohio Bryant v. Akron Metropolitan Park Dist for Summit County State of Ohio Wadsworth · Lawrence v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this Court should have the aid of appropriate findings by the District Court of the facts which underlie its conclusions”
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.