Butte Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 127 · 1933
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1975 · most notably Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board (1943), Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. (1940)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Work v. United States Rives · Continental Tie & Lumber Co. v. United States · Wisconsin Central Railroad v. United States · Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States ex rel. Humboldt Steamship Co. · United States ex rel. Louisville Cement Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * That is a charge, not of mistake but of error of judgment — a judgment necessarily exercised in the performance of the duties of office. Neither the Commission in issuing the certificate, nor the Secretary of the Treasury, the Comptroller-General or the Treasurer, when co-operating to make the payment, labored under any mistake of fact; or overlooked any applicable rule of law; or was guilty of any irregularity in proceeding. Moreover, if the word `deficit' was misconstrued, the error was not due to inadvertence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“essential to the performance of the duty imposed upon the Commission' and since 'Congress did not provide a method of review', the Government, as well as the carrier, was 'remediless whether the error be one of fact or of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of affording the Railway opportunity to show cause why their certificate * * * should not be revoked and its claim dismissed.”
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.