Schaffer Transportation Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 53 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 348 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably American Trucking Associations v. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company National Automobile Transporters Association of Detroit Michigan (1967), Pan American World Airways, Inc. v. United States (1963)
99 federal appellate · 53 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 · 49 U.S.C. § 305 · 49 U.S.C. § 307
Relies on McLean Trucking Co. v. United States · ICC v. Parker · United States v. Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. · United States of America v. Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
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 348 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(N)o carrier is entitled to protection from competition in the continuance of a service that fails to meet a public need, nor, by the same token, should the public be deprived of a new and improved service because it may divert some traffic from other carriers.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the transportation to be provided under the certificate is or will be required by the present or future public convenience and necessity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specifies in its terms that it is to govern the [Interstate Commerce] Commission in the administration and enforcement of all provisions of the Act, and this Court has made it clear that this policy is the yardstick by which the correctness of the Commission's actions will be measured”
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.