Union Tool Co. v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
259 U.S. 107 · 1922
Citation profile
181 federal appellate · 21 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 376 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. (1949)
181 federal appellate · 21 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedWilson v. Union Tool Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Alexander v. United States · Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co. · Ames v. State of Kansas Johnston Kansas Pac Ry Co · Ex Parte Lennon
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 376 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'criminal feature of the order is dominant and fixes its character for purposes of review.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“received any compensation whatever for the infringement by use of these machines,”
1 later decision 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.