Milk Wagon Drivers Union of Chicago Local 753 v. Meadowmoor Dairies’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 287 · 1941
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 33 district · 503 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 974 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs (1966), Dennis v. United States (1951)
223 federal appellate · 33 district · 503 state decisions — followed in 38 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
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Thornhill v. Alabama · Schneider v. State · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson
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 974 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'permanent' only for the temporary period for which it may last.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The picketing in this case was set in a background of violence. In such a setting it could justifiably be concluded that the momentum of fear generated by past violence would survive even though future picketing might be wholly peaceful. So the supreme court of Illinois found. We cannot say that such a finding so contradicted experience as to warrant our rejection. Nor can we say that it was written into the Fourteenth Amendment that a State through its courts cannot base protection against future coercion on an inference of the continuing threat of past misconduct.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“And so the right of free speech cannot be denied by drawing from a trivial rough incident or a moment of animal exuberance the conclusion that otherwise peaceful picketing has the taint of violence.”
8 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.