Walling v. Peoples Packing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.2d 236 · 1942
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1971 · most notably Guess v. Montague (1943), Mitchell v. Hausman (1958)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 United States v. Darby · Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Houston East West Texas Railway Company v. United States · Opp Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Administrator of the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor · NLRB v. Fain-Blatt
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has made no distinction as to the volume or amount of shipments in the commerce or of production for commerce by any particular shipper or producer. It recognized that in present day industry, competition by a small part may affect the whole and that the total effect of the competition of many small producers may be great”
1 later decision 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.