United States v. Maher’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 148 · 1939
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 49 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably United States v. Carolina Freight Carriers Corp. (1942), Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1949)
16 federal appellate · 49 district · 29 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 Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Maher v. United States
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * But under 206(a) the Commission must issue ‘such certificate without requiring further proof that public convenience and necessity will be served’ by an applicant who ‘was in bona fide operation as a common carrier by motor vehicle on June 1, 1935, over the route or routes or within the territory for which application is made and has so operated since that time’. By this legislation Congress responded to the felt need for regulating interstate motor transportation through familiar administrative devices, while at the same time it satisfied the dictates of fairness by affording sanction for enterprises theretofore established. Whether an applicant seeking exemption had in fact been, in operation within the immunizing period of the statute was bound to raise controverted matters of fact. Their determination Congress entrusted to-the Commission.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if any such carrier or predecessor in interest was in bona fide operation as a common carrier by motor vehicle on June 1, 1935, over the route or routes or within the territory for which application is made and has so operated since that time,... . except ... as to interruptions of service over which the applicant or its predecessor in interest had no control, the Commission shall issue such certificate without requiring further proof that public convenience and necessity will be served by such operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any certificate issued under section 206 or 207 shall specify the service to be rendered and the routes over which, the fixed termini, if any, between which, and the intermediate and off-route points, if any, at which, and in case of operations not over specified routes or between fixed termini, the territory within which, the motor carrier is authorized to operate; * *”
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.