Nebbia v. People of State of New York’s Empirical Analysis
291 U.S. 502 · 1934
Citation profile
565 federal appellate · 267 district · 1,716 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,487 later decisions (215 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965), Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. (1955)
565 federal appellate · 267 district · 1,716 state decisions — followed in 50 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 · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Caminetti v. United States · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
Cited together with West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · United States v. Carolene Products Co. · Olsen v. State of Nebraska Western Reference & Bond Association · Ferguson v. Skrupa
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 3,487 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the laws passed are seen to have a reasonable relation to a proper legislative purpose, and are neither arbitrary nor discriminatory, the requirements of due process are satisfied, and judicial determination to that effect renders a court functus officio.”
193 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] satisfactory stabilization of prices for fluid milk requires that the burden of sur plus milk be shared equally by all producers and all distributors in the milkshed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there are obvious distinctions between the two sorts of merchants which may well justify a difference of treatment.”
2 later decisions 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.