Atchison Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 248 · 1932
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 64 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 419 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004 · most notably Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. (1975), Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934)
77 federal appellate · 64 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 24 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 · Ann Arbor Co v. United States · Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. 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 419 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The second petition for rehearing, in this proceeding, * * * was of the nature of a supplemental bill. It presented a new situation, a radically different one, which had supervened since the record before the Commission had been closed in September, 1928. It asserted that whatever might be the view of the order when made, and upon that record, a changed economic condition demanded reopening and reconsideration. ###### “There can be no question as to the change in conditions upon which the new hearing was asked. Of that change we may take judicial notice. It is the outstanding contemporary fact, dominating thought and action throughout the country. * * -x * * * “It is plain that a record which was closed in September, 1928 — relating to rates on a major description of the traffic of the carriers in a vast territory — cannot be regarded as representative of the conditions existing in 1931. That record pertains to a different economic era and furnishes no adequate criterion of present requirements.” 284 U.S. at 260-261 , 52 S.Ct. at 149-150 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘in performing its legislative function of prescribing reasonable rates, the Commission necessarily projects into the future the results of a decision based on the conditions disclosed in the record,’ and ... its determination ‘cannot reflect accurately fluctuating conditions.’ ” (p. 261, 52 S.Ct. p. 150)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ . . . the hearing accorded related to conditions which had been radically changed, and a hearing, suitably requested, which would have permitted the presentation of evidence relating to existing conditions, was denied . . . ” ,”
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.