Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1,129 federal appellate · 386 district · 254 state decisions

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 4,320 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”

   194 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chandler v. Roudebush · Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System v. First Lincolnwood Corporation

2. “Every common carrier by water, or other person subject to this chapter, shall file immediately with the Commission a true copy, or, if oral, a true and complete memorandum, of every agreement with another such carrier or other person subject to this chapter, or modification or cancellation thereof, to which it may be a party or conform in whole or in part, fixing or regulating transportation rates or fares; giving or receiving special rates, accommodations, or other special privileges or advantages; controlling, regulating, preventing, or destroying competition; pooling or apportioning earnings, losses, or traffic; allotting ports or restricting or otherwise regulating the number and character of sailings between ports; limiting or regulating in any way the volume or character of freight or passenger traffic to be carried; or in any manner providing for an exclusive, preferential, or cooperative working arrangement. The term “agreement” in this section includes understandings, conferences, and other arrangements. .. . The Commission shall by order, after notice and hearing, disapprove, cancel or modify any agreement, or any modification or cancellation thereof, whether or not previously approved by it, that it finds to be unjustly discriminatory or unfair as between carriers, shippers, exporters, importers, or ports, or between exporters from the United States and their foreign competitors, or to operate to the detriment of the commerce of the United States, or to be contrary”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Yellow Forwarding Co. v. Atlantic Container Line · Yellow Forwarding Co. v. Atlantic Container Line

3. “[I]t has never been the law that a litigant is absolved from liability for that time during which his litigation is pending.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Members Mutual Insurance Company v. Blissett · 91 Wis. 2d 462 - CHICAGO & NWRR v. Labor & Ind. Rev. Comm.