American Trucking Associations v. Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company National Automobile Transporters Association of Detroit Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
296 federal appellate · 63 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 665 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert (1983), Brecht v. Abrahamson (1993)
296 federal appellate · 63 district · 37 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. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1336 · 49 U.S.C. § 302 · 49 U.S.C. § 303
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Federal Communications Commission v. Woko, Inc. · American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston
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 665 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“faced with new developments or in light of reconsideration of the relevant facts and its mandate, may alter its past interpretation and overturn past administrative rulings and practice.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“leaping from a particular authorization to a pervasive prohibition without justification.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The very complexities of [rail transportation] have necessarily caused Congress to cast its regulatory provisions in general terms. Congress has, in general, left the contents of these terms to be spelled out in particular cases by administrative and judicial action, and in the light of the congressional purpose to foster an efficient and fair national transportation system.”
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.