American Mail Line Ltd. v. Federal Maritime Commission’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.2d 157 · 1974
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2007
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 California v. LaRue · Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Federal Maritime Commission · Federal Maritime Commission v. Seatrain Lines, Inc. · Weinberger v. Bentex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · People's Bank v. Calhoun
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a statutory entity, the Commission cannot acquire jurisdiction merely by agreement of the parties before it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“parties ... cannot confer jurisdiction; only Congress can.”
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.