Columbia River Packers Ass'n v. Hinton’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 143 · 1942
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 44 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1945), United States v. National Association of Real Estate Boards (1950)
103 federal appellate · 44 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedHinton v. Columbia River Packers Ass'n (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Milk Wagon Drivers' Union Local No 753 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen and Helpers of America v. Lake Valley Farm Products · New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. · New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. · Hinton v. Columbia River Packers Ass'n
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 318 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons 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.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the employer-employee relationship [is] the matrix of the controversy.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“: 60 That a dispute among businessmen over the terms of a contract for the sale of fish is something different from a”
7 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.