Howard Sober, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 36 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2016
11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 49 U.S.C. § 312
Relies on American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Frisco Transportation Co. · Gagnon v. United States · Goldstein v. Cox · Bell v. Hearne · United States v. Watson Bros. Transportation Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold otherwise would be to say that once an error has occurred the Commission is powerless to take remedial steps.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Commission exercised its inherent power in this case to place clearly on Sober’s certificate the restriction already imposed by its [prior] order____ The Commission has not revoked any authority held by Sober; it instead has made more explicit the scope of the driveaway authority granted in 1972.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Requiring a hearing when this sort of mistake is made would waste the [agency's] limited resources by forcing it to reconsider an action that was already decided but improperly executed.”
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.