Supreme Court of the United States, 1939

Texas Electric Railway Co. v. Eastus

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided November 6, 1939

308 U.S. 512; 60 S. Ct. 134; 84 L. Ed. 437; 5 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 694; 1939 U.S. LEXIS 1116 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Messrs. J. M. Burford and Robert E. Quirk, with.whom Mr. C. D. Cass was on the brief, for. appellant. Mr. Robert L. Stern, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, Assistant Attorney General Arnold, and Messrs. Daniel W. Knowlt'on and Nelson Thomas were on the brief, for appellees.

Cases that cite this one

24 later published cases cite this decision. The 23 that cite it most often are listed here.

Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority v. Interstate Commerce Commission (2d Cir. 1983)
United States v. Houston H. Feaster, Individually and as Director, Alabama State Docksdepartment (5th Cir. 1967)
Central Transportation Company v. Atkins (Tenn. 1957)
Meyer v. State Board of Equalization (Cal. 1954)
Tobin Quarries, Inc. v. Central Nebraska Public Power & Irrigation Dist. (United States District Court, Nebraska 1946)
Public Service Com'n of New York v. United States (District Court, S.D. New York 1944)
State v. Woods (Ala. 1942)
Sprague v. Woll (7th Cir. 1941)
Nudelman v. Globe Varnish Co. (7th Cir. 1940)
Railway Labor Executives' Association and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America (D.C. Cir. 1988)
Mich. Nat'l Bk. v. Treasury Dep't (Mich. Ct. App. 1983)
ATL, Inc. v. United States (Court of Claims 1983)
Michigan National Bank v. Department of Treasury (Mich. Ct. App. 1983)
United States v. Norris Looney, Doing Business as the Norris Looney Company (9th Cir. 1955)
Wildermuth v. United States (7th Cir. 1952)
United States v. Foster Transfer Co. (9th Cir. 1950)
Mitchell Canneries, Inc. v. United States (Court of Claims 1948)
Evans Electrical Const. Co. v. Wm. S. Lozier, Inc. (District Court, W.D. Missouri 1946)
Reed v. Chicago, N. S. & M. R. (7th Cir. 1942)
English Const. Co. v. United States (United States District Court for the District of Delaware 1942)
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. v. Johnson (Cal. 1941)
Sprague v. Woll (7th Cir. 1941)
State v. Stein (Ala. 1940)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

The judgment is affirmed. Shields v. Utah Idaho Central R. Co., 305 U. S. 177; Interstate Commerce Comm’n v. Union Pacific R. Co., 222 U. S. 541, 547-548; Los Angeles Switching Case, 234 U. S. 294, 311-312; United States v. American Tin Plate Co., 301 U. S. 402, 411.

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