Market St Ry Co v. Railroad Commission of State of California’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 548 · 1945
Citation profile
170 federal appellate · 27 district · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 512 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. (1975), Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962)
170 federal appellate · 27 district · 172 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co. · Department of Banking State of Nebraska v. Pink
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 512 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without analyzing rate cases in detail, it may be safely generalized that the due process clause never has been held by this Court to require a commission to fix rates on the present reproduction value of something no one would presently want to reproduce, or on the historical valuation of a property whose history and current financial statements showed the value no longer to exist, or on an investment after it has vanished, even if once prudently made, or to maintain the credit of a concern whose securities already are impaired. The due process clause has been applied to prevent governmental destruction of existing economic values. It has not and cannot be applied to insure values or to restore values that have been lost by the operation of economic forces.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * due process deals with matters of substance and is not to be trivialized by formal objections that have no substantial bearing on the ultimate rights of parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as an effective determination of the litigation.”
3 later decisions 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.