Mandeville Island Farms, Inc. et al. v. American Crystal Sugar Co.

Decided May 10, 1948. Wiley Blount Rutledge delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 75 · 334 U.S. 219 (1948) · Cited 499 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–2.

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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.

• Wickard v. Filburn · 317 U.S. 111 (1942)
• United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn. · 322 U.S. 533 (1944)
• United States v. Frankfort Distilleries, Inc. · 324 U.S. 293 (1945)
• United States v. Darby · 312 U.S. 100 (1941)
• American Tobacco Co. v. United States · 328 U.S. 781 (1946)
• Prudential Insurance v. Benjamin · 328 U.S. 408 (1946)
• United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · 310 U.S. 150 (1940)
• Parker v. Brown · 317 U.S. 341 (1943)
• United States v. E. C. Knight Co. · 156 U.S. 1 (1895)
• Hammer v. Dagenhart · 247 U.S. 251 (1918)
• Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · 305 U.S. 197 (1938)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · 301 U.S. 1 (1937)
• Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · 327 U.S. 251 (1946)
• Virginian Railway Co. v. System Federation No. 40 · 300 U.S. 515 (1937)
• Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · 310 U.S. 381 (1940)
• Carter v. Carter Coal Co. · 298 U.S. 238 (1936)
• United States v. Hutcheson · 312 U.S. 219 (1941)
• Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States · 234 U.S. 342 (1914)
• United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · 332 U.S. 218 (1947)
• Levering & Garrigues Co. v. Morrin · 289 U.S. 103 (1933)
• Stafford v. Wallace · 258 U.S. 495 (1922)
• The Employers'liability Cases · 207 U.S. 463 (1908)
• Local 167, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · 291 U.S. 293 (1934)
• United States v. Wrightwood Dairy Co. · 315 U.S. 110 (1942)
• Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad · 295 U.S. 330 (1935)
• United States v. Reading Co. · 253 U.S. 26 (1920)
• Weiss v. United States · 308 U.S. 321 (1939)
• Cloverleaf Butter Co. v. Patterson, Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries · 315 U.S. 148 (1942)
• Hopkins v. United States · 171 U.S. 578 (1898)
• Federal Trade Commission v. Pacific States Paper Trade Ass'n · 273 U.S. 52 (1927)

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• Gulf Oil Corp. v. Copp Paving Co. · 419 U.S. 186 (1974)
• United States v. American Building Maintenance Industries · 422 U.S. 271 (1975)
• United States v. Lopez · 514 U.S. 549 (1995)
• Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · 442 U.S. 330 (1979)
• City of Lafayette v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · 435 U.S. 389 (1978)
• McLain v. Real Estate Board of New Orleans, Inc. · 444 U.S. 232 (1980)
• Citizens Bank v. Alafabco, Inc. · 539 U.S. 52 (2003)
• Steele v. Bulova Watch Co. · 344 U.S. 280 (1952)
• Flood v. Kuhn · 407 U.S. 258 (1972)
• Summit Health, Ltd. v. Pinhas · 500 U.S. 322 (1991)
• United States v. Employing Plasterers Assn. of Chicago · 347 U.S. 186 (1954)
• Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. · 473 U.S. 614 (1985)
• Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · 459 U.S. 519 (1983)
• Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · 431 U.S. 720 (1977)
• Gonzales v. Raich · 545 U.S. 1 (2005)
• Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar · 421 U.S. 773 (1975)
• Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co. · 336 U.S. 490 (1949)
• Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States · 345 U.S. 594 (1953)
• Blue Shield of Va. v. McCready · 457 U.S. 465 (1982)
• Kiefer-Stewart Co. v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. · 340 U.S. 211 (1951)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wyoming · 460 U.S. 226 (1983)
• Vendo Co. v. Lektro-Vend Corp. · 433 U.S. 623 (1977)
• Cantor v. Detroit Edison Co. · 428 U.S. 579 (1976)
• Radovich v. National Football League · 352 U.S. 445 (1957)
• West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy · 512 U.S. 186 (1994)
• Pfizer Inc. v. Government of India · 434 U.S. 308 (1978)
• Burke v. Ford · 389 U.S. 320 (1967)
• United States v. International Boxing Club of New York, Inc. · 348 U.S. 236 (1955)
• National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Alston · 594 U.S. 69 (2021)

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