Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co.’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 496 · 1941
Citation profile
2,657 federal appellate · 1,273 district · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,129 later decisions (275 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976)
2,657 federal appellate · 1,273 district · 163 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Fenner v. Boykin · Spielman Motor Sales Co. v. Dodge · Pennsylvania v. Williams
Cited together with Younger v. Harris · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Zwickler v. Koota
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 8,129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“touches a sensitive area of social policy upon which the federal courts ought not to enter unless no alternative to its adjudication is open.”
116 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“furthering the harmonious relation between state and federal authority.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with full protection of the constitutional claim.”
12 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.