St. Joe Paper Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2001 · most notably Norfolk and Western Railway Company v. American Train Dispatchers Association Csx Transportation Inc (1991), New Haven Inclusion Cases (1970)
39 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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
reviewedAtlantic Coast Line R. v. St. Joe Paper Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · United States v. Joint-Traffic Ass'n. · Ecker v. Western Pac Rr Corporation Crocker First Nat Bank of San Francisco · Reconstruction Finance Corporation v. Denver & Rgwr Co Same
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not inconsistent with the provisions and purposes of the Interstate Commerce Act as now or hereafter amended,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. There was, however, serious disagreement as to whether the Commission should be given the power to compel consolidation. In the end, the legislation provided that, although the Commission could promulgate a plan, it possessed no power to implement the plan. This, perhaps understandably, proved inadequate. The 1940 Act then relieved the Commission of its duty to provide a national consolidation plan. Initiation of mergers and consolidations remained, as before, in the hands of the carriers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“* * * Thus it follows from the consistency clause, when viewed in the light of this corporate continuity of a railroad in reorganization, that those who in the absence of § 77 would wield the corporate merger powers must initiate and work out the merger now. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.