Transit Commission v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 121 · 1933
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 7 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. (1981), Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Kalo Brick & Tile Co. (1981)
27 federal appellate · 7 district · 23 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 Simpson v. Shepard · Akron Ry Co v. United States · Colorado v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway 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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Prior to the Transportation Act, 1920, regulations coincidentally made by federal and state authorities were frequently conflicting, and often the enforcement of state measures interfered with, burdened and destroyed interstate commerce. Multiple control in respect of matters affecting such transportation has been found detrimental to the public interest as well as to the carriers. Dominant federal action was imperatively called for.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(18) ... no carrier by railroad subject to this Act shall abandon all or any portion of a line of railroad, or the operation thereof, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity permit of such abandonment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * construed to make federal authority effective to the full extent that it has been exerted and with a view of eliminating the evils that Congress intended to abate. [Citations.]” Transit Commission, supra, 289 U.S. at 128 , 53 S.Ct. at 538 .”
4 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.