United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

191 federal appellate · 83 district · 167 state decisions

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 836 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We must know what a decision means before the duty becomes ours to say whether it is right or wrong.”

   38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Yonkers v. United States · E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

2. “[a] zone of reasonableness exists between maxima and minima within which a carrier is ordinarily free to adjust its charges for itself.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cass County Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Northern States Power Co. · Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Interstate Commerce Commission

3. ““This court has held that an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission is void unless supported by findings of the basic or quasi-jurisdictional facts conditioning its power. Florida v. United States, 282 U.S. 194, 215 , 51 S.Ct. 119 , 75 L.Ed. 291 ; United States v. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. (January 7, 1935), 293 U.S. 454 , 55 S.Ct. 268 , 79 L.Ed. 587 .” 294 U.S. 499, 504 , 55 S.Ct. 462, 465 , 79 L.Ed. 1023 . “The statement in the second of these paragraphs that the proposed rates would • be ‘unreasonable’ must be read in the light of the report as a whole, and then appears as a conclusion insufficient as a finding unless supported by facts more particularly stated.” 294 U.S. 499, 506 , 55 S.Ct. 462, 465 , 79 L.Ed. 1023 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Du Bois v. Central R.