United States v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
333 U.S. 169 · 1948
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1965), Boynton v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1960)
26 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · New York v. United States · Ellis v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Railroad Company v. Theodore a Schubert · United States v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and language of the broadest scope has been used to accomplish (this purpose),”
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.