Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Commercial Metals Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 36 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 440 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Maislin Industries, U. S., Inc. v. Primary Steel, Inc. (1990), Car Transportation Brokerage Company v. Darden Restaurants Inc (2000)
97 federal appellate · 36 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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
reviewedSouthern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Commercial Metals Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 10101 (Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982) · 49 U.S.C. § 105 · 49 U.S.C. § 11901
Relies on Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Milhollin · Barrett v. United States · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 440 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] carrier has not only the right but also the duty to recover its proper charges for services performed.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“as may exist by virtue of the carrier's delay and its violation of the credit regulations are insufficient in magnitude to overcome the time-honored rule that under such circumstances, no”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he remedies for a carrier's violations of the regulations are best left to the ICC for such resolution as it thinks proper,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.