Piedmont Northern Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 299 · 1932
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977), Permian Basin Area Rate Cases (1968)
113 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Spokane Inland Empire Railroad Company v. United States · Piedmont Ry Co v. United States · Western Pacific California Railroad v. Southern Pacific 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 318 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The . . . Act was remedial legislation and should therefore be given a liberal interpretation; but for the same reason exemptions from its sweep should be narrowed and limited to effect the remedy intended.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he purpose of the ‘Interstate Commerce Act] to develop and maintain an adequate railway system for the people of the United States requires a broader and more liberal interpretation than that to be drawn from mere dictionary definitions of the words employed by Congress.” Piedmont & Northern Ry. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Comm., 286 U.S. 299, 311 , 52 S.Ct. 541, 545 , 76 L.Ed. 1115 (1932).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“spur, industrial, team, switching, or side tracks”
2 later decisions 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.