Track-connection order
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 224 U.S. 510 - State of Washington Ex Rel Oregon Railroad Navigation Company v. H a Fairchild C S · 1912Most cited · 304 citing opinions
test of validity
a commission may [not] compel them to build branch lines, so as to connect roads lying at a distance from each other; nor does it mean that they may be required to make connections at every point where their tracks come close together in city, town, and country, regardless of the amount of business to be done, or the number of persons who may utilize the connection if built. The question in each case must be determined in the light of all the facts, and with a just regard to the advantage to be derived by the public and the expense to be incurred by the carrier.
How often courts cite the case defining “Track-connection order”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Track-connection order” — 297 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.