Mulford v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 38 · 1939
Citation profile
194 federal appellate · 42 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 538 later decisions (94 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. (1944)
194 federal appellate · 42 district · 14 state decisions
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 Caminetti v. United States · Simpson v. Shepard · J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · United States v. Butler · United States v. Grimaud
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 538 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though no diversity of citizenship is alleged nor is any amount in controversy asserted so as to confer jurisdiction under subsection (1) of Section 24 of the Judicial Code, the case falls within subsection (8) which confers jurisdiction upon District Courts ‘of all suits and proceedings arising under any law regulating commerce’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he statute does not purport to control production. It sets no limit upon the acreage which may be planted or produced and imposes no penalty for the planting and producing of tobacco in excess of the marketing quota.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“giv[ing] the United States a civil action for the recovery of unpaid penalties.”
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.