William Truax v. Mike Raich’s Empirical Analysis
239 U.S. 33 · 1915
Citation profile
467 federal appellate · 287 district · 483 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,037 later decisions (257 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Monroe v. Pape (1961)
467 federal appellate · 287 district · 483 state decisions — followed in 42 states
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
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Barbier v. Connolly · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson
Cited together with Graham v. Richardson · Torao Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Terrace v. Thompson · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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 2,037 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to work for a living in the common occupations of the community is of the very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that it was the purpose of the [Fourteenth] Amendment to secure”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The act undertakes to operate directly upon the employment of aliens, and if enforced would compel the employer to discharge a sufficient number of his employees to bring the alien quota within the prescribed limit. It sufficiently appears that the discharge of the complainant will he solely for the purpose of meeting the requirements of the act and avoiding threatened prosecution under its provisions. It is, therefore, idle to call the injury indirect or remote. It is also entirely clear that unless the enforcement of the act is restrained the complainant will have no adequate remedy, and hence we think that the case falls within the class in which, if the uneonstitutionality of the act is shown, equitable relief may be had.””
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is also settled that while a court of equity, generally speaking, has 'no jurisdiction over'the prosecution, the punishment or the pardon of crimes or misdemeanors/ (In re Sawyer, 124 U. S. 200 , 210 [ 8 S. Ct. 482 , 31 L. Ed. 402 ]), a distinction obtains, and equitable jurisdiction exists to restrain criminal prosecutions under unconstitutional enactments, when the prevention of such prosecutions is essential to the safeguarding of rights of property.””
4 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.