West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 61 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 510 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), General Motors Corp. v. Tracy (1997)
168 federal appellate · 61 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 18 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
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 601
Relies on Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Wickard v. Filburn · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
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 510 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he [dormant] Commerce Clause prohibits economic protectionism — that is, regulatory measures designed to benefit in-state economic interests by burdening out-of-state competitors.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he paradigmatic example of a law discriminating against interstate commerce.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“eschew[ing] formalism for a sensitive, case-by-case analysis of purposes and effects.”
5 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.