Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Railroad Commission of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[r]ight-of-way property can and often does extend several yards from the [tracks]” and that section 213.37 does not cover vegetation which is on the right-of-way but not immediately adjacent to the tracks
• explaining that “not all right-of-way property lies ‘immediately adjacent to the roadbed,’” and that § 213.37 does not apply to “vegetation that is on the right of way but not immediately adjacent to the roadbed”
• “[Lunsford] does not stand for the proposition that under the Locomotive Boiler Inspection Act state attempts to regulate are preempted only to the extent they prescribe ‘integral or essential’ equipment of a complete locomotive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).