Moffat Tunnel League v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 113 · 1933
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 27 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Alleghany Corporation v. Breswick & Co Baker Weeks & Co (1957), Associated Industries of New York State, Inc. v. Ickes (1943)
45 federal appellate · 27 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 11 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co · Chicago Junction Case · Richmond v. Irons · Brown v. United States · Pittsburgh 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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * the complaint must show that plaintiff has, or represents others having, a legal right or interest that will be injuriously affected by the order. Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees v. United States, 263 U.S. 143, 148 , 44 S.Ct. 72 , 68 L.Ed. 216 ; [Alexander] Sprunt & Son v. United States, 281 U.S. 249, 254 , 50 S.Ct. 315 , 74 L.Ed. 832 ; Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Co. v. United States, 281 U. S. 479, 486 , 50 S.Ct. 378 , 74 L.Ed. 980 . Plaintiffs have failed to show that they are so qualified. Their interest is not a legal one. It is no more than a sentiment, such as may be entertained by members of the public in the territory west of Craig, that the improvement of transportation facilities authorized by the Commission will lessen the possibility of construction by a rival of the Rio Grande of an extension of the Moffat to Utah common points.””
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.