In Re Interrogatories’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2020
1 district · 17 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Sproles v. Binford · Miller v. Wilson · Farmers & Merchants Bank of Monroe v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond · John McLean v. State of Arkansas
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.
““ ‘Food’ shall mean any substance used, or intended to be used, for human consumption, when the same is prepared for consumption to be consumed upon the premises where sold, which, among other things, shall include all meat,, fish, vegetables, bread and condiments, whether simple, mixed or compounded, but shall not include soft drinks, ice cream, or ices, and confections.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[a] legislative enactment does not violate the equal protection clause merely because it is not all-embracing. The legislature is free to recognize degrees of harm and may confine its restrictions to those classes of cases where the need is deemed to be clearest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The unrestricted privilege to engage in business or to conduct it as one pleases is not guaranteed by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stulp v. Schuman
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.