American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Frisco Transportation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
142 federal appellate · 25 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 399 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. (1975), Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1985)
142 federal appellate · 25 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 14 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. § 2321 · 49 U.S.C. § 312 · 5 U.S.C. § 1004
Relies on United States v. Pierce Auto Freight Lines, Inc. · Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co. · Federal Communications Commission v. National Broadcasting 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 399 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not be used as a guise for changing previous decisions because the wisdom of those decisions appears doubtful in the light of changing policies.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clerical error.” However, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and caselaw applying those rules provide guidance on what constitutes clerical error. See Fed. R.Civ.P. 60(a) ("Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected ....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(T)he presence of authority in administrative officers and tribunals to correct such errors (due to inadvertence or mistake) has long been recognized probably so well recognized that little discussion has ensued in the reported cases.”
6 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.