Balkcom v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2000
18 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 7 U.S.C. § 1281 (Agricultural Act of 1948) · 7 U.S.C. § 1375
Relies on Wickard v. Filburn · Rodgers v. United States · Lilly v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad · Caha v. United States · Shafer v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The very nature of an acreage allotment of the enumerated crops is such that it has no existence except for one specific year * * * and the idea that the farmers and landowners participating in the program acquired by such participation any vested right in the ordinary sense to the allotments themselves, or to have the rules and regulations remain static or to be continued beyond the year for which promulgated, is clearly contrary to and destructive of the Act and its workings.””
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.