Alford v. Major’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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

1. “In the opinion of this Court, the main purpose of the statute was to ensure that all interstate operations would be supervised directly by persons familiar with federal safety regulations and amenable to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. In other words, the intent was to make sure that licensed carriers would be responsible in fact, as well as in law, for the maintenance of leased equipment and the supervision of borrowed drivers. The Interstate Commerce Act was supposed to prevent accidents, as well as to provide financially responsible defendants in the event of their occurrence. And that end could best be achieved if the carriers themselves exerted actual control over leased equipment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carolina Freight Carriers Corp. v. Pitt County Transportation Co. · Alford v. Major

2. “shall provide for the exclusive possession, control and use of the equipment, and for the complete assumption of responsibility in respect thereto”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allstate Insurance Company v. Alterman Transport Lines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Consolidated Systems, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee. Allstate Insurance Company, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Alterman Transport Lines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Consolidated Systems, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee