Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. v. Railway Employees' Department’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.2d 340 · 1937
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. American Trucking Associations (1940), Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board (1943)
23 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 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 156 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 215
Relies on Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Phillips v. Commissioner · Phillips v. Commissioner · Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. National Mediation Board
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who presently performs no service, and who ... may never again be employed,”
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.