United States v. 40 Cases, More or Less of Six One Gallon Cans’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.2d 343 · 1961
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2018
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 United State v. Kahriger · Kordel v. United States · Hipolite Egg Company v. United States · United States v. Urbuteit
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We would be undermining the remedial legislative purpose of consumer protection were we to deny the power to seize misbranded articles on the ground that such foods as corn oil, peanut oil, soya bean oil and olive oil when mixed constitute a ‘different product’ from a blend of less than all or from a pure measure of any one of them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“protect[ing] the integrity of interstate products so as not to depress the demand for goods that must travel across state lines.”
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.