Ziffrin, Inc. v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
308 U.S. 132 · 1939
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 21 district · 221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 498 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc. (1980), California v. LaRue (1973)
81 federal appellate · 21 district · 221 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. · Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter · Geer v. State of Connecticut · Kidd v. Pearson
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 498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State may protect her people against evil incident to intoxicants ... and may exercise large discretion as to means employed.”
15 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.