Nicholson v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 364 · 1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2020
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 10102 · 49 U.S.C. § 10901 · 49 U.S.C. § 10907 · 49 U.S.C. § 11301
Relies on Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Kalo Brick & Tile Co. · St. Martin Evangelical Lutheran Church v. South Dakota · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Hoffa v. United States · Piedmont Northern Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether a particular track segment is a `railroad line,' requiring Commission authorization pursuant to section 10901(a), or a `spur, industrial, team, switching, or side' track, exempt from Commission jurisdiction pursuant to section 10907(b), turns on the intended use of the track segment....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“designed and used for loading, unloading, switching, and other purposes connected with, and incidental to, but not actually and directly used for [transporting goods between two different points of shipment],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the purpose and effect of the new track[ ] is to extend substantially the line of a carrier into new territory,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.