Milk Control Board of Pennsylvania v. Eisenberg Farm Products’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 346 · 1939
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 290 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Parker v. Brown (1943), Southern Pac Co v. State of Arizona Sullivan (1945)
56 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Simpson v. Shepard · Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · Lemke v. Farmers Grain Co. · Shafer v. Farmers Grain Co.
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 290 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly a small fraction of the milk produced by farmers in Pennsylvania [was] shipped out of the Commonwealth.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy · Cloverland-Green Spring Dairies, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board Beverly R. Minor, Individually and as Members of the Board Luke F. Brubaker J. Robert Derry, Individually and as Members of the Board, Thomas E. McGlinchey Gertrude Giorgini Sue A. Spigler, ("Milk Consumers"), Intervenors-Plaintiffs, Cloverland-Green Spring Dairies, Inc., (Amended Per Clerk's Order Filed 10/3/01) Cloverland-Green Spring Dairies, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board Beverly R. Minor, Individually and as Chairperson of the Board Luke F. Brubaker J. Robert Derry, Individually and as Members of the Board, Thomas E. McGlinchey Gertrude Giorgini Sue A. Spigler, ("Milk Consumers"), Intervenors-Plaintiffs, Thomas E. McGlinchey Gertrude Giorgini Sue A. Spigler, Individually, and on Behalf of Milk Consumers in Pmmb Areas 1 and 4, (Amended Per Clerk's Order Filed 10/3/01)“this Court condemned an enactment aimed solely at interstate commerce attempting to affect and regulate the price to be paid for milk in a sister state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“amounted in effect to a tariff barrier set up against milk imported into [New York].”
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.