United States v. National City Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 573 · 1948
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 56 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 399 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co (1949), Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1949)
145 federal appellate · 56 district · 24 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · McNabb v. United States · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials Co · United States v. Griffith
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 399 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here Congress was still interested in seeing to it that plaintiffs do not have virtually unlimited power to bring actions in any forum — to “give plaintiffs free rein to haul defendants hither and yon at their caprice.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any suit, action, or proceeding under the antitrust laws against a corporation may be brought not only in the judicial district whereof it is an inhabitant, but also in any district wherein it may be found or transacts business; and all process in such cases may be served in the district of which it is an inhabitant, or wherever it may be found.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[Through § 12 Congress] relieved persons injured through corporate violations of the antitrust laws from the “often insuperable obstacle” of resorting to distant forums for redress of wrongs done in the places of their business or residence. A foreign corporation no longer could come to a district, perpetrate there the injuries outlawed, and then by retreating or even without retreating to its headquarters defeat or delay the retribution due.”
5 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.