Interstate Commerce Commission v. Weldon’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1974
6 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 303 · 49 U.S.C. § 306
Relies on Brewster v. Gage · New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · United States v. Cooper Corp. · Piedmont Northern Ry Co v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Walling v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(6) Motor vehicles used in carrying property consisting of ordinary livestock, live poultry, and other agricultural commodities (not including the products of slaughter, nor preserved, frozen, or unmanufactured products), and fish (including shell fish but not including preserved, frozen, processed, or manufactured products), if such motor vehicles.are not used in carrying any other property, or passengers, for compensation; or””
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.