United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 311 · 1931
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 20 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983), Mandeville Island Farms, Inc. v. American Crystal Sugar Co. (1948)
34 federal appellate · 20 district · 16 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 Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · Davis v. Wakelee · Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission · Akron Ry Co v. United States · Union Bridge Company 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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the limitation of a prescribed standard.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Broadly stated, the rule is that the right to continue the exercise of a privilege granted by the state cannot be made to depend upon the grantee's submission to a condition prescribed by the state which is hostile to the provisions of the federal Constitution.”
2 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.