Interstate Commerce Commission v. Hoboken Manufacturers' Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
320 U.S. 368 · 1943
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably United States v. United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. (1950), Richard A. Williams and Alfred S. Trask v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia, Leonard N. Bebchick and Daniel W. Gottlieb v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. D.C. Transit System, Inc. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission (1969)
17 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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 Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. v. United States · Akron Ry Co v. United States · General American Tank Car Corporation v. El Dorado Terminal Co · United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one aspect of the general rate policy which Congress has directed the Commission to establish and administer in the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unjust, unreasonable, inequitable, or unduly preferential or prejudicial as between the carriers.”
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.