Texas and Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company

1907-02-25 · Supreme Court of the United States · United States

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4 judgments have relied on it, across 1912–1944

first 1912 · last 1944 · busiest 1912 (1 judgments)

1944-02-28STARK ET AL. v. WICKARD, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1939-04-17ROCHESTER TELEPHONE CORP. v. UNITED STATES Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States 1930-04-14ALEXANDER SPRUNT & SON, INC., Et Al. v. UNITED STATESSupreme Court of the United States 1912-06-07Procter & Gamble Company v. United States of America, Interstate Commerce Commission, Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company, Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States

What it rests on

7 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

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Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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