Whitehouse v. Illinois Central Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 30 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 274 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Carey v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1964), Transportation-Communication Employees Union v. Union Pacific Railroad (1966)
137 federal appellate · 30 district · 31 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
reviewedIllinois Cent. R. v. Whitehouse (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Eccles v. Peoples Bank of Lakewood Village · General Committee of Adjustment of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rr v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas R 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 274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confine ourselves to deciding only what is necessary to the disposition of the immediate case,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mandamus is itself governed by equitable considerations and is to be granted only in the exercise of sound discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]mong the injuries asserted by Railroad, only the possibility that it is being put to needless expense incident to the pending Board proceeding will necessarily be involved if judicial relief is denied at this stage of the administrative process. Such expense is inadequate basis for intervention whether by mandamus or injunction.”
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.