Wallace v. Currin’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.2d 856 · 1938
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1964
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 181 (Packers and Stockyards Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 499A (Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 51 · 7 U.S.C. § 511 · 7 U.S.C. § 511D · 7 U.S.C. § 551
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the possession of grade and price information by the buyers, and the lack of it on the part of the growers, places the growers under a severe handicap in the marketing of their tobacco and opens.the way to abuses and practices by which farmers are victim ized. ... It is the thought of the committée that if the purchaser needs an expert in grades in order to protect his interest in the sale the growers should be accorded the same protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Currin v. Wallace“where the greatest number of growers may be served with the facilities available to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Currin v. Wallace“unless two-thirds of the growers, voting favor it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Currin v. Wallace
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.