Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 349 · 1951
Citation profile
243 federal appellate · 111 district · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 893 later decisions (96 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977), Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul (1963)
243 federal appellate · 111 district · 182 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Parker v. Brown · Gibbons v. Ogden · Schneider v. State · Simpson v. Shepard · H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond
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 893 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“artlessly disclose an avowed purpose to discriminate.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would invite a multiplication of preferential trade areas destructive”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the City of Madison prefers to rely upon its own officials for inspection of distant milk sources, such inspection is readily open to it without hardship for it could charge the actual and reasonable cost of such inspection to the importing producers and processors.”
6 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.