Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.2d 6 · 1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1997
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Desist v. United States · Scalza v. United States · Kahm v. United States · Thompson v. Texas Mexican Railway Co. · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(T)he distribution of risks undertaken by this contract does not impair the policies or force of the Federal Safety Appliance Act .... (T)hese provisions of the contract represented an adjustment of the private relations between the two carriers but did not alter their duties to the public as common carriers.” 437 F.2d at 9-10 . (citations omitted)”
1 later decision 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.