United States v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
303 U.S. 226 · 1938
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 25 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 270 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Flast v. Cohen (1968), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
95 federal appellate · 25 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 48
Relies on Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. v. United States · United States v. Corrick · Jacobs v. United States · United States v. North American Transportation & Trading 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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Urgent Deficiencies Act provides a method of judicial review of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission possessing the following extraordinary features: "(1) The original hearing in the district court is not before a single judge, but before three, of whom one must be a circuit judge; (2) From the decree of the district court as so constituted a direct appeal to the Supreme Court is granted as of right, instead of a review by a circuit court of appeals; (3) Upon both the trial court and the Supreme Court rests the obligation to give the case precedence over others. These features were first introduced by the Expediting Act of 1903, 32 Stat. 823 , 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 28 , 29 and notes for suits by the United States to enforce the antitrust and commerce laws. They were extended by the Hepburn Act of 1906, § 5, 34 Stat. 584 , 590, 592, 49 U.S.C.A. § 16 and note, to suits to enforce or to set aside orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. When that jurisdiction was vested in the Commerce Court provisions with like effect were provided for cases coming before it. 36 Stat. 539 . To its jurisdiction the district court succeeded, with these features, under the Urgent Deficiencies Act. "In the opinion of the Congress jurisdiction with the extraordinary features of the Urgent Deficiencies Act was justified by the character of the cases to which it applied cases of public importance because of the widespread effect of the decisions thereof. In such cases Congress sought to g”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““All railway common carriers are hereby required' to transport such mail matter as may be offered for transportation by the United States in the manner, under the conditions, and with the service prescribed by the Postmaster General and shall be entitled to receive fair and reasonable compensation for such transportation and for the service connected therewith.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““For the purpose of this section the Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby vested with all the powers which it is authorized by law to exercise in the investigation and ascertainment of the justness and reasonableness of freight, passenger, and express rates to be paid by private shippers.””
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.