Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 125 · 1931
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2003 · most notably Southern Pac Co v. State of Arizona Sullivan (1945), Prudential Ins Co v. Benjamin (1946)
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Simpson v. Shepard · Houston East West Texas Railway Company v. United States · Armour Packing Company v. United States · Florida 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress ... causes many things to be done that greatly benefit particular ports and which incidentally result to the disadvantage of other ports”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nevada v. Watkins“'prevent[s] preference as between States in respect of their ports or the entry and clearance of vessels.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nevada v. Watkins
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.