United States v. Marshall Transport Co.’s Empirical Analysis
322 U.S. 31 · 1944
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Gilbertville Trucking Co. v. United States (1962), Alleghany Corporation v. Breswick & Co Baker Weeks & Co (1957)
29 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 47 · 47 U.S.C. § 152 · 49 U.S.C. § 306
Relies on Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Marshall Transport Co. 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall be lawful, with the approval and authorization of the Commission, as provided in subdivision (b)— “(I) for two or more carriers to consolidate or merge their properties or franchises, or any part thereof, into one corporation for the ownership, management, and operation of the properties theretofore in separate ownership; or “(II) for any carrier, or two or more carriers, jointly, to purchase, lease, or contract to operate the properties, or any part thereof, of another; or “(III) for any carrier, or two or more carriers, jointly, to acquire control of another through ownership of its stock or otherwise; or “(IV) for a person which is not a carrier to acquire control of two or more carriers through ownership of their stock or otherwise; or “(V) for a person which is not a carrier and which has control of one or more carriers to acquire control of another carrier through ownership of its stock or otherwise; * * * ” 3”
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.