Cochran v. Veneman’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.3d 263 · 2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Avocados Plus Inc. v. Veneman (2004), Overstreet v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local Union No. 1506 (2005)
8 federal appellate · 2 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
Relationships
Relies on Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of University of Virginia · Rust v. Sullivan · Wooley v. Maynard
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Supreme Court . . . has left unresolved the standard for determining the validity of laws compelling commercial speech. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“promotional programs . . . seem really to be special interest legislation on behalf of the industry's interests more so than the government's[,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the Cattlemen's Board seems to be an entity `representative of one segment of the population, with certain common interests.'”
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.