Atlantic Coast Line Co v. State of Florida State of Florida’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 301 · 1935
Citation profile
185 federal appellate · 28 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 497 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co. (1951), Carter v. Carter Coal Co. (1936)
185 federal appellate · 28 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 32 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 Simpson v. Shepard · Houston East West Texas Railway Company v. United States · Virginian Ry Co v. United States · Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R.
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 497 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * restitution is without support in equity and conscience.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A situation so unique is a summons to a court of equity to mould its plastic remedies in adaptation to the instant need.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In thus holding we do not suggest that the determination of the Interstate Commerce Commission as to the rates to be operative thereafter had the force of res judicata in respect of past transactions. Cf. Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co., 284 U.S. 370, 389 , 52 S.Ct. 183 , 76 L.Ed. 348 ; State Corporation Commission v. Wichita Gas Co., 290 U.S. 561, 569 , 54 S.Ct. 321 , 78 L.Ed. 500 . None the less, as the court below conceded, it was entitled to great respect, representing, as it did, the opinion of a body of experts upon matters within the range of their special knowledge and experience.””
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.