United States v. Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 522 · 1931
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1975 · most notably Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States (1939), United States v. Corrick (1936)
16 federal appellate · 9 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Colorado v. United States · Chicago Junction Case · United States v. Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Goodrich Transit Co.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No case has been found in which matter embodied in a report and not followed by a formal order has been held to be subject to judicial review.” (Italics supplied.)”
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.