Steele v. General Mills, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 433 · 1947
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000 · most notably International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. (1966), Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc. (1956)
29 federal appellate · 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGeneral Mills, Inc. v. Steele (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Mingus, Receiver v. Wadley · Stephenson v. Binford · Thompson v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Texas motor carrier legislation was designed to be a part of a state transportation regulatory system applicable alike to all lines of transportation which represents a ‘studied effort * * * to prevent, through regulation, unfair, discriminatory, or destructive competition between such authorized carriers as would ultimately impair their usefulness.’ Texas & P. R. Co. v. Railroad Commission, Tex.Civ.App., 138 S.W.2d 927, 930 , 931 rev’d on other grounds, 138 Tex. 148 , 157 S.W.2d 622 . Cf. Stephenson v. Binford, 287 U.S. 251, 272-273 , 53 S.Ct. 181, 187 , 77 L.Ed. 288 [298, 299], 87 A.L.R. 721 .””
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.