Denver Union Stock Yard Company v. Producers Livestock Marketing Association Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company (1964), Federal Maritime Board v. Isbrandtsen Co. (1958)
89 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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
reviewedProducers Livestock Marketing Ass'n v. United States (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 181 (Packers and Stockyards Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 205 · 7 U.S.C. § 208 · 7 U.S.C. § 450C
Relies on Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. United States · International Salt Co. 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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“services or facilities furnished at a stockyard in connection with the receiving, buying, or selling on a commission basis or otherwise, marketing, * * * weighing, or handling in commerce, of livestock”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be the duty of every stockyard owner and market agency to furnish upon reasonable request, without discrimination, reasonable stockyard services at such stockyard * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device in connection with”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.