Waite v. Macy’s Empirical Analysis
246 U.S. 606 · 1918
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 54 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 248 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1984 · most notably Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984), Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949)
93 federal appellate · 54 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMacy v. Browne (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Morrill v. Jones · Bacon v. Rutland Railroad · United States v. William George
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 248 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No doubt it is true that this court cannot displace the judgment of the board in any matter within its jurisdiction, but it is equally true that the board cannot enlarge the powers given to it by statute and cover a usurpation by calling it a decision on purity, quality or fitness for consumption.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The regulation makes the presence of any coloring matter an absolute ground for exclusion. But the only grounds recognized by the statute are inferiority to the standard in purity, quality and fitness for consumption, words repeated over and over again in the act. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Secretary and the board must keep within the statute . . . and we see no reason why the restriction should not be enforced by injunction . . .”
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.