Green v. Obergfell’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.2d 46 · 1941
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 13 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party (1977), 69 Cal. 2d 713 - Consolidated Theatres, Inc. v. Theatrical Stage Employees Union, Local 16 (1968)
22 federal appellate · 13 district · 30 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 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 107 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 109 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 113 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 52 (§ 20 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering · United States v. Hutcheson · United States v. Wong Kim Ark
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Each of the three major labor organizations which are parties to this controversy are voluntary, unincorporated associations; the American Federation of Labor is the parent and the other two are affiliated units of that Federation. It is a well recognized principle in the law of such voluntary associations that there shall be no judicial interference with intra-association affairs or determinations in the absence of special circumstances showing injustice or illegal action.” Id. at 55 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No court of the United States, as defined in this chapter, shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except in a strict conformity with the provisions of this chapter; nor shall any such restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction be issued contrary to the public policy declared in this chapter.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]hat the public officers charged with the duty to protect complainant's property are unable or unwilling to furnish adequate protection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.