Wilson & Co. v. Birl’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.2d 948 · 1939
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. (1957), Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad (1957)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 17 (§ 6 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 107 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 108 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 109 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 52 (§ 20 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering · American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Central Trades Council · New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. · Bedford Cut Stone Co v. Journeyman Stone Cutters' Ass'n of North America · Stephens v. Ohio State Telephone Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would be unreasonable to construe [this] subsection to include losses which ... the powers of the police are hardly calculated to prevent,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unable or unwilling to furnish adequate protection”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involving or growing out of a labor dispute,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.