transportation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 338 U.S. 464 - Federal Power Commission v. East Ohio Gas Co. · 1950Most cited · 302 citing opinions
Natural Gas Act
the word 'transportation' like the phrase 'interstate commerce' aptly describes the movements of gas in East Ohio's High-pressure pipe lines
How the Supreme Court has restated “transportation”
Each Supreme Court definition of “transportation,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “transportation”
Court decisions citing the 8 opinions that defined “transportation” — 1,164 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 8 definitions, chronological · 1913–1950
- 1913·226 U.S. 426 - Chicago Rock Island Pacific Railway Company v. Hardwick Farmers Elevator Company[p2]· cited 181×ORIGINAL
Under the Hepburn Act amendment, the term 'transportation' shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof, and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported.
- 1916·239 U.S. 588 - Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Dettlebach[p18]· cited 167×
Congress recognized that the duty of carriers to the public included the performance of a variety of services that, according to the theory of the common law, were separable from the carrier's service as carrier, and, in order to prevent overcharges and discriminations from being made under the pretext of performing such additional services, it enacted that, so far as interstate carriers by rail were concerned, the entire body of such services should be included together under the single term 'transportation,' and subjected to the provisions of the act respecting reasonable rates and the like.
Hepburn Act
Commerce covers the whole field of which transportation is only a part; and the word of narrower signification was chosen understandingly and deliberately as the appropriate term.
Transportation begins for that purpose, if not for others, when the merchandise has been placed in the possession of a carrier.
Interstate Commerce Act
The term 'transportation' shall include all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit of property transported.
including 'all services in or in connection with transportation', as well as 'the use of any transportation facility
the word 'transportation' as used in the Act shall broadly include 'locomotives * * * and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof.
Interstate Commerce Act