Fay v. Douds’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 720 · 1949
Citation profile
123 federal appellate · 26 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably United Mine Workers of America v. Arkansas Oak Flooring Co. (1956), Groendyke Transport, Inc. v. Davis (1969)
123 federal appellate · 26 district · 10 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. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Hillsborough Tp Somerset County Nj v. Cromwell · Fitzgerald v. Douds · Eubanks v. Thompson · National Maritime Union of America v. Herzog
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)f this assertion of constitutional right is not transparently frivolous, it gave the District Court jurisdiction.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“nebulous and declamatory assertions, wholly unspecified.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Privilege of becoming an ‘exclusive bargaining agent’ is altogether distinct from the common law right of workmen to combine; it is a creature of Congress to whose grant Congress was free to attach such conditions as it saw fit.””
1 later decision 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.