joint rate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 366 U.S. 745 - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. United States · 1961Most cited · 25 citing opinions
The essential feature of a joint rate is that connecting roads have agreed or mutually consented to carry traffic from points on one road to points on another road for an aggregate charge which is less than the sum of their local charges between the same points.
How often courts cite the case defining “joint rate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “joint rate” — 25 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.