Smyser v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 514 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2012
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 557 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 7 U.S.C. § 601 · 7 U.S.C. § 602 · 7 U.S.C. § 608C (Food and Agriculture Act of 1965)
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Zuber v. Allen · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Brannan v. Stark
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(5) In the case of milk and its products, orders issued pursuant to this section shall contain one or more of the follow ing terms and conditions, and (as provided in subsection (7) of this section) no others: (A) ... providing a method for fixing, minimum prices for each such use classification which all handlers shall pay, and the time when payment shall be made, for milk purchased from producers or associations of producers, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“were intended `to eliminate, so far as possible, violent seasonal fluctuations in the available milk supply with their attendant disturbing effect upon returns to producers....’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was this scenario that Judge Jerome Frank had in mind when he wrote that milk often provoked `as much human strife and nastiness as strong alcoholic beverages.’”
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.