H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond, Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets

Decided April 4, 1949. Robert Houghwout Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 92 · 336 U.S. 525 (1949) · Cited 560 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · 294 U.S. 511 (1935)
• Milk Control Board v. Eisenberg Farm Products · 306 U.S. 346 (1939)
• Parker v. Brown · 317 U.S. 341 (1943)
• Duckworth v. Arkansas · 314 U.S. 390 (1941)
• Nebbia v. New York · 291 U.S. 502 (1934)
• Buck v. Kuykendall · 267 U.S. 307 (1925)
• United States v. Rock Royal Co-Operative, Inc. · 307 U.S. 533 (1939)
• Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel · 278 U.S. 1 (1928)
• California v. Thompson · 313 U.S. 109 (1941)
• Union Brokerage Co. v. Jensen · 322 U.S. 202 (1944)
• Toomer v. Witsell · 334 U.S. 385 (1948)
• Pennsylvania v. West Virginia · 262 U.S. 553 (1923)
• Shafer v. Farmers Grain Co. of Embden · 268 U.S. 189 (1925)
• Morgan v. Virginia · 328 U.S. 373 (1946)
• Gibbons v. Ogden · 22 U.S. 1 (1824)
• South Carolina State Highway Department v. Barnwell Bros. · 303 U.S. 177 (1938)
• Borden's Farm Products Co. v. Baldwin · 293 U.S. 194 (1934)
• Freeman v. Hewit · 329 U.S. 249 (1946)
• SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. · 303 U.S. 177 (1938)
• Ziffrin, Inc. v. Reeves · 308 U.S. 132 (1939)
• Lemke v. Farmers Grain Co. of Embden · 258 U.S. 50 (1922)
• West v. Kansas Natural Gas Co. · 221 U.S. 229 (1911)
• Best & Co. v. Maxwell · 311 U.S. 454 (1940)
• Hegeman Farms Corp. v. Baldwin · 293 U.S. 163 (1934)
• Independent Warehouses, Inc. v. Scheele · 331 U.S. 70 (1947)
• Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · 301 U.S. 495 (1937)
• United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn. · 322 U.S. 533 (1944)
• Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · 310 U.S. 381 (1940)
• Steward MacHine Co. v. Davis · 301 U.S. 548 (1937)
• Gibbs v. Buck · 307 U.S. 66 (1939)

Cited by

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• Hughes v. Alexandria Scrap Corp. · 426 U.S. 794 (1976)
• Hughes v. Oklahoma · 441 U.S. 322 (1979)
• Breard v. Alexandria · 341 U.S. 622 (1951)
• Dennis v. Higgins · 498 U.S. 439 (1991)
• Lewis v. BT Investment Managers, Inc. · 447 U.S. 27 (1980)
• Wyoming v. Oklahoma · 502 U.S. 437 (1992)
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Cottrell · 424 U.S. 366 (1976)
• Campbell v. Hussey · 368 U.S. 297 (1961)
• Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison · 340 U.S. 349 (1951)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison · 520 U.S. 564 (1997)
• Reeves, Inc. v. Stake · 447 U.S. 429 (1980)
• Raymond Motor Transportation, Inc. v. Rice · 434 U.S. 429 (1978)
• West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy · 512 U.S. 186 (1994)
• Allenberg Cotton Co. v. Pittman · 419 U.S. 20 (1974)
• National League of Cities v. Usery · 426 U.S. 833 (1976)
• City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · 437 U.S. 617 (1978)
• Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. · 511 U.S. 93 (1994)
• New Energy Co. of Indiana v. Limbach · 486 U.S. 269 (1988)
• C & a Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown · 511 U.S. 383 (1994)
• Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana · 453 U.S. 609 (1981)
• General Motors Corp. v. Washington · 377 U.S. 436 (1964)
• Fort Gratiot Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Michigan Department of Natural Resources · 504 U.S. 353 (1992)
• Douglas v. Seacoast Products, Inc. · 431 U.S. 265 (1977)
• World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · 444 U.S. 286 (1980)
• Miller v. California · 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
• Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland · 437 U.S. 117 (1978)
• Healy v. Beer Institute · 491 U.S. 324 (1989)
• Western & Southern Life Ins. Co. v. State Bd. of Equalization of Cal. · 451 U.S. 648 (1981)
• Morey v. Doud · 354 U.S. 457 (1957)
• CTS Corp. v. Dynamics Corp. of America · 481 U.S. 69 (1987)

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