Baltimore or Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
305 U.S. 507 · 1939
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1979 · most notably United States v. United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. (1950), Lowden v. Simonds-Shields-Lonsdale Grain Co. (1939)
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. North Carolina Corporation Commission · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. North Dakota ex rel. McCue · Merchants Warehouse Co. v. United States · St Louis Ry Co v. Gill Same
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the carrier warehouse rates, as found by the Court and Commission, are not open to all shippers alike there is violation of sections 2 and 3(1) prohibiting discrimination and unreasonable prejudice.”
2 later decisions 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.