Zimmerman v. Conrail’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2009
2 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 45 U.S.C. § 701 (Regional Rail Reorganization Act)
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · American Well Works Company v. Layne & Bowler Company E · Great Northern Ry Co v. Alexander · Peltier v. Peltier
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action or proceeding arising under any Act of Congress regulating commerce or protecting trade against restraints and monopolies____””
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.