Abbotts Dairies Division of Fairmont Foods, Inc. v. Butz’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 12 · 1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2005
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Zuber v. Allen · Nader v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equitable restitution to [the plaintiffs] to the extent of the monies in the producer-settlement fund reserve is ... appropriate in our view. Denial of restitution on the facts presented here would virtually remove any possibility of recovery of over-payments due to invalid milk pricing orders.”
1 later decision 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.