Federal Maritime Commission v. Aktiebolaget Svenska Amerika Linien’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. (1975), Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Federal Maritime Commission (1968)
127 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAktiebolaget Svenska Amerika Linien v. Federal Maritime Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. · United States v. General Motors Corp. · McLean Trucking Co. v. United States · Federal Maritime Board v. Isbrandtsen Co. · Minneapolis St Louis Railway Company v. United States
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'required by a serious transportation need, necessary to secure important public benefits or in furtherance of a valid regulatory purpose of the Shipping Act.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contrary to the public interest, or to be in violation of”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“other evidence in the record [which] fairly detracts from the weight of this factor [antitrust conflict]”
3 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.