Pennsylvania Co v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 170 · 1936
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1993 · most notably Valvoline Oil Co. v. United States (1939), Merchants Fast Motor Lines, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission (1993)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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 Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Coe v. Town of Errol · Arkadelphia Milling Co v. St Louis Southwestern Ry Co Hasty · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Olsen U S · Texas New Orleans Railroad Company v. Sabine Tram Company
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ot all commerce is transportation, and not all transportation is by common carriers by rail. The question for us here is not whether the movement of the coal is to be classified as commerce or even as commerce between states. The question is whether it is that particular form of interstate commerce which Congress has subjected to regulation in respect of rates by a federal commission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.S. C. § 1 et seq.) is aimed at common carriers exclusively, (Section 1(1, 3), * * * and not even at all these. With exceptions plainly unrelated to this case (Section 1(1) (b, c), * * * carriers, even though common, are unaffected by the act unless they are carriers wholly by railroad, or if partly by railroad and partly by water, are operating under ‘a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment.’ Section 1(1) (a) * * *. Cf. Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. R. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Com’n, 162 U. S. 184 , 16 S.Ct. 700 , 40 L.Ed. 935 ; Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Behlmer, 175 U.S. 648 , 20 S.Ct. 209 , 44 L.Ed. 309 ; Standard Oil Co. v. United States, [2 Cir.,] 179 F. 614 ; Mutual Transit Co. v. United States, [2 Cir.,] 178 F. 664 . There are limitations, moreover, in respect of the conduct to be controlled in addition to the foregoing limitations in respect of the carriers to be regulated. Even though the activities are those of common carriers by rail, the statute does not apply ‘to the transportation of passengers or property * * * wholly within one State and -not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any place in the United States.’ Section 1(2) (a, b) * * *. For many purposes, as for example in testing the validity of state taxation, merchandise is deemed to be in interstate commerce when it has started on its journey, though still in the possession of consignor or seller. Hughes Bros. Co. v. Min”
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.