Illinois Central Railroad v. Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.2d 943 · 1977
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably West v. Harris (1978), Carpenters District Council of New Orleans & Vicinity v. Dillard Dept. Stores, Inc. (1994)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Relies on Rodgers v. United States · Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co. v. Export Drum Co. · Baum v. Earl Millikin, Inc. · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Oregon Pacific Industries, Inc.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a penalty does not reflect damages to the plaintiff but is assessed to encourage certain conduct on the part of the party penalized.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 1961 . . . has nothing to do with the question of whether prejudgment interest shall be allowed as part of the compensation awarded to make the injured party whole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interest shall be allowed on any money judgment in a civil case recovered in a district court. . . . Such interest shall be calculated from the date of the entry of the judgment, at the rate allowed by State law.”
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.