Mexican Light & Power Co. v. Texas Mexican Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 731 · 1947
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Reider v. Thompson (1950), Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. v. Regal-Beloit Corp. (2010)
17 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Ward · Texas Mexican Railway Co. v. Mexican Light & Power Co. · Fay v. New York · Mexican Light & Power Co. v. Texas Mexican 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless the connecting carrier has received a consideration for the bill of lading in addition to that which flowed under the bill of lading issued by the initiating carrier, the Carmack Amendment makes such second bill of lading void. It can neither enlarge the liability of the connecting carrier nor contract that of the initiating carrier. [Because] the so-called bill of lading [issued by Texas Mexican R.R.] did not evidence any new and independent undertaking, when judged by the rigid requirements by which bills of lading are valid under the Carmack Amendment, ... the shipment over the Texas-Mexican [R.R. line] legally moved only under the original bill of lading[;] the Pennsylvania [R.R.] was never displaced as the initial carrierf;] and ... therefore the Texas-Mexican [R.R.] was not liable for damage that occurred on the Mexican [National] Railroad.”
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.