Illinois Commerce Commission v. Interstate Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 355 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020
12 federal appellate ·
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. § 2321 · 49 U.S.C. § 10903 · 49 U.S.C. § 10905 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. · Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Kalo Brick & Tile Co. · Scott v. Rosenberg · Morris Mechanical Enterprises, Inc. v. United States · Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) working capital and required capital expenditure; (B) expenditures to eliminate deferred maintenance; (C) the current cost of freight cars, locomotives and other equipment; and (D) the foregone tax benefits from not retiring properties from rail services....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he costs that must be taken into áccount for purposes of evaluating the burden on the railroad are not only those costs that can be avoided at once (the year after abandonment), but also those that will be saved (so to speak) down the line.... [I]t is preposterous to think that a line must be kept perpetually in service ... simply because the millions of dollars in savings will accrue only in the second or third or fifth year after abandonment. The standard of “present or future public convenience and necessity” serves to avoid just such an absurdity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“General rules need not work perfectly in all their applications,”
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.