Ideal Farms, Inc. v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.2d 608 · 1961
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably United States v. Oates (1977), United States v. Bailey (1978)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 601 · 7 U.S.C. § 608C (Food and Agriculture Act of 1965)
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · United States v. Butler · Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp. · Mazer v. Stein · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(5) In the case of milk and its products, orders issued pursuant to this section, shall contain one or more of the following terms and conditions, and (except as provided in subsection (7) of this section) no others:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that `in expounding a statute, [the court] must not be guided by a single sentence or member of a sentence but look to the provisions of the whole law, and to its object and policy.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(r)esort may be had to the statements of such an authoritative person,”
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.