Black v. Magnolia Liquor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde (1984), Federal Trade Commission v. Mandel Bros. (1959)
40 federal appellate · 20 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
reviewedMagnolia Liquor Co. v. Cooper (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 27 U.S.C. § 201 (Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act of 1988)
Relies on International Salt Co. v. United States · United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp. · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · Standard Oil Co. of California v. United States
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he practices here involved are analogous to those prohibited by the antitrust laws.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Tying agreements by which the sale of one commodity is conditioned on the purchase of another have been repeatedly condemned under the antitrust laws, since they serve no purpose beyond the suppression of competition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he will of Congress would be thwarted if we gave the language in question the strictest construction possible.”
2 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.