In Re Willing’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably People v. Western Fruit Growers (1943), Ray v. Parker (1940)
34 state decisions
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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Highland Farms Dairy, Inc. v. Agnew · Borden's Farm Products Co. v. Ten Eyck · People v. . Beakes Dairy Co. · In Re Weisberg
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“eliminate economic disturbances and unfair trade practices in the milk industry[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The separate classification of distributors and retail stores is, therefore, constitutional. It is only where class legislation is arbitrary and unreasonable that it is invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Parker
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.