Northern Pac Ry Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 248 · 1947
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), General Electric Co. v. Southern Construction Co. (1967)
16 federal appellate · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNorthern Pac. Ry. Co. v. United States (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad · Piedmont Northern Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Russell v. Sebastian · Slidell v. Grandjean · United States v. Northern Pacific 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * in general the use to which the property is to be put is the controlling test of its military or naval character. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Civilian agencies may service the armed forces or act as adjuncts to them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“31 Applying this test, it was held, in the Northern Pacific R. Company case, that copper cable for use in the installation of degaussing equipment on a cargo vessel (a defense against magnetic mines), lumber for construction of a munitions plant, Marine Corps pontons, bowling alleys for a naval air base at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and liquid paving asphalt for an airport necessary for national defense at Cold Bay, Alaska, were transported”
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.