Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2000 · most notably Aberdeen & Rockfish R. Co. v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) (1975), 363 F. Supp. 525 - United States v. Greyhound Corporation (1973)
6 district ·
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 47 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States · Chicago St Ry Co v. Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Ass'n · St Louis Southwestern Ry Co v. United States · Ross v. Duval · Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. United States of America
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discriminate in their rates, fares, and charges between connecting lines, or unduly prejudice any connecting line in the distribution of traffic that is not specifically routed by the shipper,”
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.