Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering’s Empirical Analysis
254 U.S. 443 · 1921
Citation profile
431 federal appellate · 162 district · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,395 later decisions (180 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Lindh v. Murphy (1997)
431 federal appellate · 162 district · 232 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDuplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Mills v. Green · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n
Cited together with United States v. Hutcheson · Bedford Cut Stone Co v. Journeyman Stone Cutters' Ass'n of North America · American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Central Trades Council · Deitrich Loewe et al. v. Martin Lawlor et al. · Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 1,395 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor * * organizations * * * or to forbid * * * such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof * * * ” ( 15 U.S.C., Sec. 17 )”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“ceasing to perform any work or labor, or from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful means so to do.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“But there is nothing in the section to exempt such an organization or its members from accountability where it or they depart from its normal and legitimate objects and engage in an actual combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade. 8a”
6 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.