United States v. Hutcheson’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 219 · 1941
Citation profile
581 federal appellate · 122 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,296 later decisions (126 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 (1970)
581 federal appellate · 122 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 52 (§ 20 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Thornhill v. Alabama · United States v. Borden Co. · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering
Cited together with Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · Connell Construction Co. v. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 100 · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering
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 1,296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as a union acts in its self-interest and does not combine with non-labor groups, the licit and the illicit under § 20 are not to be distinguished by any judgment regarding the wisdom or unwisdom, the rightness or wrongness, the selfishness or unselfishness of the end of which the particular union activities are the means.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whereas under prevailing economic conditions, developed with the aid of governmental authority for owners of property to organize in the corporate and other forms of ownership association, the individual unorganized worker is commonly helpless to exercise actual liberty of contract and to protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment, wherefore, though he should be free to decline to associate with his fellows, it is necessary that he have full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection; therefore, the following definitions of and limitations upon the jurisdiction and authority of the courts of the United States are enacted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to determine whether an indictment charges an offense against the United States, designation by the pleader of the statute under which he purported to lay the charge is immaterial. He may have conceived the charge under one statute which would not sustain the indictment, but it may nevertheless come within the terms of another statute.”
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.