Island Park, LLC v. CSX Transportation’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.3d 96 · 2009
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Franks Investment Co. LLC v. Union Pacific Railroad (2010), Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. City of Alexandria (2010)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
reviewedthe decision below (from New York Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 10102 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 49 U.S.C. § 10101 (Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982) · 49 U.S.C. § 10102 · 49 U.S.C. § 103 · 49 U.S.C. § 10501 · 49 U.S.C. § 20101 (Federal Railroad Safety Authorization Act of 1994) · 49 U.S.C. § 20103
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · Gibbons v. Ogden
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a locomotive, car, vehicle, vessel, warehouse, wharf, pier, dock, yard, property, facility, instrumentality, or equipment of any kind related to the movement of passengers or property, or both, by rail, regardless of ownership or an agreement concerning use; and (B) services related to that movement, including receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration, icing, ventilation, storage, handling, and interchange of passengers and property.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the remedies provided under this part with respect to regulation of rail transportation are exclusive and preempt the remedies provided under Federal or State law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) transportation by rail carriers, and the remedies provided in this part with respect to rates, classifications, rules (including car service, interchange, and other operating rules), practices, routes, services, and facilities of such carriers; and (2) the construction, acquisition, operation, abandonment, or discontinuance of spur, industrial, team, switching, or side tracks, or facilities, even if the tracks are located, or intended to be located entirely in one State.”
2 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.