Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 21 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States (1962), American Farm Lines v. Black Ball Freight Service (1970)
35 federal appellate · 21 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 47 U.S.C. § 307 · 49 U.S.C. § 306 · 5 U.S.C. § 1008 · 5 U.S.C. § 1011
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · United States v. Borden Co. · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · American Trucking Ass'ns v. United States Eastern Motor Exp · United States v. Carolina Freight Carriers Corp.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“since the permanent license sought is not of the same type and class as the old license”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“1. (T)here must be a license outstanding ; 2. (I)t must cover activities of a continuing nature; 3. (T)here must have been filed a timely and sufficient application to continue the existing operation; 4. (A)nd the application for the new or extended license must not have been finally determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The policy behind the third sentence of § .9(b) is that of protecting those persons who already have regularly issued licenses from the serious hardships occasioned both to them and to the public by expiration of a license before the agency finds time to pass upon its renewal.”
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.