Pennsylvania Railroad v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America v. P Lockridge (1971), United States v. Carlo Bianchi & Co. (1963)
97 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 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. § 1336 · 28 U.S.C. § 1500 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 28 U.S.C. § 2321
Relies on United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · United States v. ICC · United States v. Jones
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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[WJhile a mere ‘abstract declaration’ on some issue by the Commission may not be judicially reviewable, an order that determines a ‘right or obligation’ so that ‘legal consequences’ will flow from it is reviewable.” 363 U.S. at 205 , 80 S.Ct. at 1133 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under a duty to stay its proceedings pending ... review”
2 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.