Potomac Passengers Association v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. National Association of Railroad Passengers v. Central of Georgia Railway Company, Southern Railway Company and National Railroad Passenger Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. National Assn. of Railroad Passengers (1974)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 45 U.S.C. § 501 · 45 U.S.C. § 521 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 541 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 561 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 564 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 565 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Baker v. Carr · Bell v. Hood · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legislative history which, through strained processes of deduction from events of wholly ambiguous significance, may furnish dubious bases for inference in every direction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“all rail passenger service other than (A) commuter and other short-haul service . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“of its entire responsibility for the provision of intercity rail passenger service.”
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.