Dighton v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1975
7 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 1001 · 5 U.S.C. § 1003 · 7 U.S.C. § 1282 · 7 U.S.C. § 1334 · 7 U.S.C. § 1335 · 7 U.S.C. § 1336 · 7 U.S.C. § 1365 · 7 U.S.C. § 1366
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. United States · Federal Housing Administration v. Darlington, Inc. · Cooke v. United States · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Vance
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the legislation [Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938] was not only for the benefit of the farmers but also for the benefit of the public at large. If the plaintiff obtained a vested right in the amount of wheat he could plant in any one year the whole program would be unsuccessful in providing ‘an orderly, adequate, and balanced flow of such commodities in interstate * * * commerce.’ It is further to be observed that the Agricultural Adjustment Act is a public law and not a private law and that no vested right may be obtained under a public law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miguez v. Miguez
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.