American Public Health Association v. Earl Butz, Secretary of Department of Agriculture’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2018
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Kennedy v. Powell · American Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Henry S. Bloomgarden v. Charles B. Coyer · New York Central Railroad v. Public Service Commission of Indiana
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordinarily render it injurious to health.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“American housewives and cooks normally are not ignorant or stupid and their methods of preparing and cooking of food do not ordinarily result in salmonellosis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(W)e think that the presence of salmonella in meat does not constitute adulteration within (the Wholesome Meat Acts') definition.”
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.