Railroad Retirement Board v. Duquesne Warehouse Co.’s Empirical Analysis
326 U.S. 446 · 1946
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Guy F. Atkinson Co. (1952), March v. United States (1974)
73 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDuquesne Warehouse Co. v. Railroad Retirement Board (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Adams v. Mills · Atchison Sf Ry Co v. United States · L. T. Barringer & Co. v. United States · Pennsylvania Co v. Kittaning Iron & Steel Mfg 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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means any carrier (as defined in subsection (b) of this section), and any company which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by one or more such carriers or under common control therewith, and which operates any equipment or facility or performs any service (except trucking service, casual service, and the casual operation of equipment or facilities) in connection with the transportation of passengers or property by railroad or the receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, or handling of property transported by railroad.... 12 (b) The term”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether a carrier's affiliate is performing a service that could be performed by the carrier and charged for under the line-haul tariffs”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“services ... in connection with the transportation of ... property by railroad.”
2 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.