Paine Lumber Co. v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 459 · 1917
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 28 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering (1921), State of Georgia v. Pennsylvania R Co (1945)
42 federal appellate · 28 district · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPaine Lumber Co. v. Neal (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Swift Company v. United States
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a case between an employer and employees . . . involving, or growing out of, a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““If the controversy he ono in which a court of equity only can afford the relief prayed tor, its jurisdiction is unaffected by the character o£ the questions involved.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“doing any act or thing which might lawfully be done in the absence of such dispute by any party thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.