Board of Trade of Kansas City Mo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 534 · 1942
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 71 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 384 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1995 · most notably Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same (1947), National Broadcasting Co. v. United States (1943)
98 federal appellate · 71 district · 9 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Atchison Ry Co v. United States · Railroad Commission of Texas v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co. · Manufacturers Railway Co. v. United States · United States v. Chicago Heights Trucking Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he process of rate making is essentially empiric. The stuff of the process is fluid and changing — the resultant of factors that must be valued as well as weighed. Congress has therefore delegated the enforcement of transportation policy to a permanent expert body and has charged it with the duty of being responsive to the dynamic character of transportation problems.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The process of rate making is essentially empiric. The stuff of the process is fluid and changing — the resultant of factors that must be valued as well as weighed. Congress has therefore delegated the enforcement of transportation policy to a permanent expert body and has charged it with the duty of being responsive to the dynamic character of transportation problems. Cf. Railroad Commission [of Texas] v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co., 310 U.S. 573, 581-582 [ 60 S.Ct. 1021, 1024 , 84 L.Ed. 1368 ]. ****** “Neither rule of thumb, nor formula nor general principles provide a ready answer. We certainly have neither technical competence nor legal authority to pronounce upon the wisdom of the course taken by the Commission. It is not for us to tinker with so sensitive an organism as the grain rate structure only a minor phase of which is caught in the record before us. If we were to grant the relief sought by the appellants, we would be restoring evils which the exclusive rate-break adjustment was designed to remove — ■ evils which, for all we know, would be far mere serious than those complained of by the appellants.” 314 U.S. at pages 546, 548, 62 S.Ct. at page 372 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and would subject another locality to an”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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