Buckstaff Bath House Co. v. McKinley’s Empirical Analysis
308 U.S. 358 · 1939
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Silk (1947), Penn Dairies, Inc. v. Milk Control Commission (1943)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis · James v. Dravo Contracting Co. · Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co. · Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. v. McLean · Arlington Hotel Co. v. Fant
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The control reserved by the Government for protection of a governmental program and the public interest is not incompatible with the retention of the status of a private enterprise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all structures and other property in private ownership on the . . . reservation.”
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.