Roberts v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 804 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2017
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · United States v. Owens · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Hagemann v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n · Arkadelphia Milling Co v. St Louis Southwestern Ry Co Hasty
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the determination of whether transportation between two points in [a] State is interstate (or foreign) or intrastate in nature depends on the `essential character' of the shipment ... [c]rucial to this determination is the shipper's fixed and persisting intent at the time of the shipment ... [i]ntent is ascertained from all the facts and circumstances surrounding the transportation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The shipper] controls the production, shipment, and subsequent sale of the urea. Although [the shipper] does not know the exact quantity of urea that each individual customer will receive when it ships urea to the [warehouse], it makes these shipments on the basis of past demand and estimated future need. [The shipper] does store the urea at [the warehouse], but the storage is only temporary.”
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.