Louisville Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 740 · 1931
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 12 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably American Trucking Associations v. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company National Automobile Transporters Association of Detroit Michigan (1967), New York Central Securities Corp. v. United States (1932)
110 federal appellate · 12 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Houston East West Texas Railway Company v. United States · New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · United States v. State of Minnesota · State of Wisconsin v. State of Illinois · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. C. H. Albers Commission 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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alter provisions that are clear and explicit - - -.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Rubert Hermanos, Inc. · Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Southern Pacific Company, Great Northern Railway Company, and Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Alouette Peat Products, Limited, Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alouette Peat Products, Limited““The legislative history of the interstate commerce act shows clearly that the evil of discrimination was the principal thing aimed at.” (p. 749.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the facts have been resolved by the Commission upon evidence, there is no escape from the application of the broad provision of the statute”
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.