International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union v. Donnelly Garment Co.’s Empirical Analysis
304 U.S. 243 · 1938
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 14 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000 · most notably Flemming v. Nestor (1960), Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors (1985)
17 federal appellate · 14 district · 6 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
Relies on United States v. Corrick · Stratton v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. v. Oklahoma Packing Co. · Smith v. Wilson
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(The predecessor of § 2282) does not provide for a case where the validity of an act of Congress is merely drawn in question, albeit that question be decided, but only for a case where there is an application for an interlocutory or permanent injunction to restrain the enforcement of an Act of Congress. . . . Had Congress intended the provision . . . , for three judges and direct appeal, to apply whenever a question of the validity of an act of Congress became involved, Congress would naturally have used the familiar phrase 'drawn in question'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. L.O. Ward v. William G. Coleman, Jr., Individually, and as Secretary of Transportation of the United States of America, Russell E. Train, Individually, and as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America, and Admiral Owen W. Silar, Individually, and as Commandant United States Coast Guard, United States of America, L.O. Ward D/B/A L.O. Ward Oil and Gas Operations v. United States · Ward v. Coleman“The contention of plaintiffs that the Norris-LaGuardia Act [prohibiting district court injunctions against certain labor activity] was not applicable to the conduct of defendants and would be invalid if otherwise interpreted was but an anticipation of a defense and did not constitute an application for injunction in any proper sense of the term as used in section 3 [of the Act of August 24, 1937, a predecessor of 28 U.S.C. § 2282 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o interlocutory or permanent injunction suspending or restraining the enforcement, operation, or execution of, or setting aside, in whole or in part, any Act of Congress”
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.