connecting line
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 382 U.S. 237 - Western Pacific Railroad v. United States · 1965Most cited · 32 citing opinions
To qualify as a 'connecting line' under § 3(4) of the Interstate Commerce Act, 'in the absence of physical connection, a carrier need only show that it participates in an established through route, making connection at the point of common interchange, all of whose participants stand willing to cooperate in the arrangements necessary to eliminate the alleged discrimination.
How often courts cite the case defining “connecting line”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “connecting line” — 32 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.