United States v. Wabash Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 403 · 1944
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably American Telephone and Telegraph Company, v. Central Office Telephone, Inc. (1998), United States v. United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. (1950)
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 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 Morgan v. United States · Merchants Warehouse Co. v. United States · Davis v. Cornwell · L. T. Barringer & Co. v. United States · United States v. American Sheet & Tin Plate 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] preference or rebate is the necessary result of every violation of [the analog to §203(c) in the ICA] where the carrier renders or pays for a service not covered by the prescribed tariffs.”
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.