Milk Wagon Drivers' Union Local No 753 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen and Helpers of America v. Lake Valley Farm Products’s Empirical Analysis
311 U.S. 91 · 1940
Citation profile
166 federal appellate · 21 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 487 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 (1970), National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. (1944)
166 federal appellate · 21 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedLake Valley Farm Products, Inc. v. Milk Wagon Drivers' Union (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering · American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Central Trades Council · New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. · Bedford Cut Stone Co v. Journeyman Stone Cutters' Ass'n of North America
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 487 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) * * * “(c) The term ‘labor dispute’ includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For us to hold, in the face of this legislation (the Clayton and Norris-LaGuardia Acts), that the federal courts have jurisdiction to grant injunctions in cases growing out of labor disputes, merely because alleged violations of the Sherman Act are involved, would run counter to the plain mandate of the (Norris-LaGuardia) Act and would reverse the declared purpose of Congress.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“further * * * extend the prohibitions of the Clayton Act respecting the exercise of jurisdiction by federal courts and to obviate the results of the judicial construction of that Act,”
3 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.