Highland Farms Dairy, Inc. v. Agnew’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 608 · 1937
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 35 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 420 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
99 federal appellate · 35 district · 170 state decisions — followed in 35 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 · Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · Smith v. Cahoon
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 420 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“How power shall be distributed by a state among its governmental organs is commonly, if not always, a question for the state itself.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * One who is required to take out a license will not be heard to complain, in advance of application, that there is danger of refusal. (Citing authorities.) He should apply and see what happens.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judgment by the highest Court of a state as to the meaning and effect of its own constitution is decisive and controlling everywhere.”
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.