Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
294 U.S. 511 · 1935
Citation profile
231 federal appellate · 113 district · 249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,111 later decisions (180 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977), Miller v. California (1973)
231 federal appellate · 113 district · 249 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Brown v. Maryland · Wong Wing v. United States · Leisy v. Hardin
Cited together with Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison · Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation v. New York State Liquor Authority
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 1,111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish[ing] ... a scale of prices for use in other states”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“system of minimum prices to be paid by dealers to producers,”
3 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.