Norfolk and Western Railway Company v. American Train Dispatchers Association Csx Transportation Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
250 federal appellate · 61 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 688 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1992)
250 federal appellate · 61 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1113 · 11 U.S.C. § 365 · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 565 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 49 U.S.C. § 11301
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell
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 688 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the principle of ejusdem generis, when a general term follows a specific one, the general term should be understood as a reference to subjects akin to the one with specific enumeration.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from the antitrust laws and from all other law, ..., as necessary to let a carrier carry out [an approved] transaction,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“The authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission under this subchapter is exclusive. A carrier or corporation participating in or resulting from a transaction approved by or exempted by the Commission ... is exempt from the antitrust laws and from all other law, including State and municipal law, as necessary to let that person carry out the transaction----”
8 later decisions 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.