Pampanga Sugar Mills v. Trinidad’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 211 · 1929
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Bowie v. Gonzalez (1941), Microwave Communications, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1974)
25 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 Allen v. Smith · Davis v. John L. Roper Lumber Co. · Douglas v. New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. · New York Central R. R. v. Johnson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he term producer is “commonly used to denote a person who raises agricultural crops, and puts them in a condition for the market.” Allen v. Smith, 173 U.S. 389, 399 , 19 S.Ct. 446, 449 , 43 L.Ed. 741 ; Pampanga Sugar Mills v. Trinidad, 279 U.S. 211, 217 , 49 S.Ct. 308 , 73 L.Ed. 665 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the absence of express restriction it may be assumed that a term is used throughout a statute in the same sense in which it is first defined.””
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.