class rates
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 379 U.S. 343 - All States Freight, Inc. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · 1964Most cited · 45 citing opinions
rates applied to traffic through two separate tariffs. One tariff, the 'classification,' assigns each of the many thousand commodities carried by rail to one of presently some 30 categories or classes, based upon the commodity's particular characteristics. A companion tariff specifies the rate at which each class of freight will be carried
How often courts cite the case defining “class rates”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “class rates” — 45 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.