Harris v. State Corporation Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 1979 · most notably Llano, Inc. v. Southern Union Gas Company (1964), State Ex Rel. Hovey Concrete Products Co. v. Mechem (1957)
41 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 49 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Shupee v. Railroad Commission · Public Service Commission v. Havemeyer · Seward v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad · Southern Kansas Stage Lines Co. v. Public Service Commission · Seaberg v. Raton Public Service Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This purpose and policy is not unlike the purpose and policy declared in §§ 7 and 8 of Art. XI of our Constitution. Pioneer work had been done by the Constitution makers and by our court in the Seward, the Seaberg and other cases, and it is interesting to note that when the draftsmen of the act said in § 51, that an action could be commenced in the District Court to set aside an order of the Commission ‘on the ground that it is unlawful, or unreasonable’ they employed the identical phrase employed in the Seward case to describe the limits of the scope of judicial review by the Supreme Court of orders of the Commission bn removal. “Also, it is interesting to note that § 51 recognizes that some orders of the Commission made pursuant to the powers vested by the 1933 Act are removable to the Supreme Court under the provisions of § 7 of Art. XI of the Constitution. “It is only orders not so removable which may be the basis of an action in the District Court under the provision of Sec. 51 of the statute. “It would be unfortunate and confusing if there prevailed one standard of the scope of judicial review in cases removable to the Supreme Court under the provisions of § 7 of Art. XI of the Constitution, and a different standard in cases removable to the District Court under the procedure provided in § 51 of the act, and § 53 which gives an appeal to the Supreme Court from the District Court. There is nothing in the act which indicates an intent to accomplish such an incongruous si”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any motor carrier and any other person in interest being dissatisfied with any order or determination of the commission, not removable to the supreme court of the state of New Mexico under the provisions of Section 7, Article XI of the constitution of the State of New Mexico, may commence an action in the district court for Santa Fe County against the commission as defendant, to vacate and set aside such order or determination, on the ground that it is unlawful, or unreasonable. In any such proceeding the court may grant relief by injunction, mandamus or other extraordinary remedy. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.