People v. . Budd’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904), German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis (1914)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 23 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Munn v. Illinois · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Matter of Application of Jacobs · People v. . King
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ That no general power resides in the legislature to regulate private business, prescribe the conditions under which it shall be conducted, fix the price of commodities or services, or interfere with freedom of contract, we cannot doubt. The merchant and manufacturer, the artisan and laborer, under our system of government, are left to pursue and provide for their own interests in their own way, untrammeled by burdensome and restrictive regulations which, however common in rude and irregular times, are inconsistent with constitutional liberty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.