Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
264 U.S. 504 · 1924
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 46 district · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 382 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970), Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965)
28 federal appellate · 46 district · 183 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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 Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Lawton v. Steele · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same
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 382 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a state may not, under the guise of protecting the public, arbitrarily interfere with private business or prohibit lawful occupations or impose unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions upon them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the art of bread-making and the usages of the trade; with the devices by which buyers of bread are imposed upon and honest bakers or dealers are subjected by their dishonest fellows to unfair competition; with the problems which have confronted public officials charged with the enforcement of the laws prohibiting short weights, and with their experience in administering those laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘ Sec. 2/ — Bread, standards of weight. — Every loaf of bread made or procured for the purpose of sale, sold, exposed or offered for sale in the State of Nebraska shall be the following weights avoirdupois, one-half pound, one pound, one and one-half pounds, and also in exact multiples of one pound and of no other weights. Every loaf of bread shall be made of pure flour and wholesome ingredients and shall be free from any injurious or deleterious substance. Whenever twin or multiple loaves are baked, the weights herein specified shall apply to each unit of the twin or multiple loaf. “Sec. 3. — Tolerance, how determined. — A. tolerance at the rate of two ounces per pound in excess of the standard weights herein fixed shall be allowed and no more, provided that the standard Weights herein prescribed shall be determined by averaging the weight of not less than twenty-five loaves of any one unit and such average shall not be less than the minimum nor more than the maximum prescribed by this Act. All weights shall be determined on the premises where bread is manufactured or baked and shall apply for a period of at least twenty-four hours after baking. Provided, that bread shipped into this state shall be weighed where sold or exposed for sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Cedeño
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.