United States v. N. E. Rosenblum Truck Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 50 · 1942
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 29 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably People of State of Illinois McCollum v. Board of Education of School Dist No 71 Champaign County Ill (1948), American Trucking Ass'ns v. United States Eastern Motor Exp (1953)
105 federal appellate · 29 district · 14 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 United States v. American Trucking Associations · N. E. Rosenblum Truck Lines, Inc. 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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the plain meaning of words used in a statute produces an unreasonable result, “plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole,” we may follow the purpose of the statute rather than the lettered words.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““for the Congressional intent to avoid multiple ‘grandfather’ rights on the basis of a single transportation service is equally applicable to prevent appellees from being considered either as contract or as common carriers within the meaning of the Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Torrey“We think it clear that Congress did not intend to grant multiple ‘grandfather’ rights on the basis of a single transportation service.”
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.