The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
617 F.2d 485 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Franz (1989), Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Pacific Railroad Company Railway Labor Executives' Association (1981)
12 federal appellate · 2 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 Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled that where a reasonable construction of a statute is possible which gives effect to all of its provisions, a statute will not be read to render some sections unnecessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.