United States v. Chicago Heights Trucking Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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71 federal appellate · 39 district · 14 state decisions

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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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the courts have always recognized that Congress intended to commit to the Commission the determination, by application of an informed judgment to existing facts, of the existence of forbidden preferences, advantages and discrimination.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. New York v. United States · Providence and Worcester Railroad Company v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Penn Central Corporation, Intervenors

2. ““Forwarders utilize common carriers by rail and-motor truck to transport goods owned by others. They solicit and obtain many small shipments, from various points within an area, and cause them to be carried in less than truckload or carload lots to a concentration center within the area. There they are assembled by the forwarder for further trans portation in truckload or carload lots. Although the forwarder gives owners of individual small shipments his own contract corresponding in form to through hills of lading and assumes responsibility for safe through carriage, the forwarder customarily arranges for the pickup, assembly and transportation of the shipments by carriers for hire. And the forwarders, not the owners of the goods, select the carriers and route the shipments. Upon arrival of a truckload or carload of the assembled small shipments at a distribution center, the bulk shipment is broken up, the forwarder separates and takes possession of the original small shipments and arranges, where necessary, their further carriage to their various final destinations in the area served by the particular distribution point. In this final carriage of the small shipment to its ultimate destination, the forwarder again utilizes carriers for hire to move these less than truckload or carload lots. Thus, forwarders may use the serv-. ice of carriers to assemble shipments of less than truckload or carload lots at their concentration center, to transport the assembled truckload or car”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. American Transportation Co. v. Insurance Co. of North America

3. ““ ‘It is not disputable that from the beginning the very purpose for which the Commission was created was to bring into existence a body, which from its peculiar character, would be most fitted to primarily decide whether from facts, disputed or undisputed, in a given case, preference or discrimination existed.’ And where a court substituted ‘its judgment as to the existence of preference for that of the Commission, on the ground that where there was no dispute as to the facts it had a right to do so, [the court] obviously exerted an authority not conferred upon it by the statute.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 76 F. Supp. 526 - Ontario Freight Lines Corp. v. United States