West Lynn Creamery, Inc., et al. v. Jonathan Healy, Commissioner of Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture

Decided June 17, 1994. John Paul Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 93-141 · 512 U.S. 186 (1994) · Cited 291 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.

• Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · 294 U.S. 511 (1935)
• Bacchus Imports, Ltd. v. Dias · 468 U.S. 263 (1984)
• New Energy Co. of Indiana v. Limbach · 486 U.S. 269 (1988)
• Milk Control Board v. Eisenberg Farm Products · 306 U.S. 346 (1939)
• Guy v. Baltimore · 100 U.S. 434 (1880)
• H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond · 336 U.S. 525 (1949)
• Raymond Motor Transportation, Inc. v. Rice · 434 U.S. 429 (1978)
• Maryland v. Louisiana · 451 U.S. 725 (1981)
• Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · 449 U.S. 456 (1981)
• Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland · 437 U.S. 117 (1978)
• Hughes v. Alexandria Scrap Corp. · 426 U.S. 794 (1976)
• Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison · 340 U.S. 349 (1951)
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Cottrell · 424 U.S. 366 (1976)
• Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · 432 U.S. 333 (1977)
• Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · 397 U.S. 137 (1970)
• Nebbia v. New York · 291 U.S. 502 (1934)
• Wickard v. Filburn · 317 U.S. 111 (1942)
• United States v. Darby · 312 U.S. 100 (1941)
• City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · 437 U.S. 617 (1978)
• United States v. Butler · 297 U.S. 1 (1936)
• Brown v. Maryland · 25 U.S. 419 (1827)
• Toomer v. Witsell · 334 U.S. 385 (1948)
• New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann · 285 U.S. 262 (1932)
• Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Minnesota · 358 U.S. 450 (1959)
• Mandeville Island Farms, Inc. v. American Crystal Sugar Co. · 334 U.S. 219 (1948)
• Zobel v. Williams · 457 U.S. 55 (1982)
• South Carolina State Highway Department v. Barnwell Bros. · 303 U.S. 177 (1938)
• Reeves, Inc. v. Stake · 447 U.S. 429 (1980)
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Ward · 470 U.S. 869 (1985)
• Goldberg v. Sweet · 488 U.S. 252 (1989)

Cited by

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• Comptroller of Treasury of Md. v. Wynne · 575 U.S. 542 (2015)
• Camps Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v. Town of Harrison · 520 U.S. 564 (1997)
• Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis · 553 U.S. 328 (2008)
• United Haulers Ass'n v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority · 550 U.S. 330 (2007)
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Walsh, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Human Services · 538 U.S. 644 (2003)
• General Motors Corp. v. Tracy · 519 U.S. 278 (1997)
• South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. · 585 U.S. 162 (2018)
• Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · 517 U.S. 44 (1996)
• Glickman v. Wileman Brothers & Elliott, Inc. · 521 U.S. 457 (1997)
• American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Michigan Public Service Commission · 545 U.S. 429 (2005)
• National Pork Producers Council v. Ross · 598 U.S. 356 (2023)

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