Beaumont Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 74 · 1930
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 48 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 319 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935)
45 federal appellate · 48 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Virginian Ry Co v. United States · Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission · Akron Ry Co v. United States · Wichita Light Co v. Public Untilities Commission of the State of Kansas
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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Complete statements by the [agency] showing the grounds upon which its determinations rest are quite as necessary as are opinions of lower courts setting forth the reasons on which they base their decisions ...”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Appellants claim that the commission’s order, if enforced, will operate to deprive them of their property without due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”
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.