United States v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1994 · most notably Trans Alaska Pipeline Rate Cases (1978), Southern Railway Company v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp (1979)
60 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Relies on United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · Arrow Transportation Company v. Southern Railway Company · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission · Barrett v. United States · United States v. Louisiana
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legitimate, reasonable, and direct adjunct to the (agency's) explicit statutory power....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Congress has charged the Commission with the task of determining whether the rates proposed by the carriers are 'just and reasonable.' 49 U.S.C. § 1(5).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]henever there shall be filed . . . any schedule stating a new individual or joint rate, . . . the Commission . . . may . . . suspend the operation of such schedule”
2 later decisions 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.