Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 176 · 1935
Citation profile
196 federal appellate · 56 district · 205 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 678 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe (1971), Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977)
196 federal appellate · 56 district · 205 state decisions — followed in 31 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 · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Savage v. Jones
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 678 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the grant of a monopoly, if otherwise an appropriate exercise of the police power, is not void as denying equal protection of the law”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The power of a state to prescribe standard containers in order to facilitate trading, to preserve the condition of the merchandise, to protect buyers from deception, or to prevent unfair competition is conceded. Such regulation of trade is a part of the inspection laws; was among the earliest exertions of the police power in America; has been persistent ; and has been widely applied to merchandise commonly sold in containers. See Turner v. Maryland, 107 U. S. 38, 51-54 . Latterly, with the broadening of the field of distribution and the growing use of containers in the retail trade, the scope of the regulation has been much extended.” Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White, 296 U. S. 176 , 56 S. Ct. 159 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to promote, protect, further and develop the horticulture interests”
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.