Carpenters and Joiners Union of America Local No 213 v. Ritter's Cafe’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 722 · 1942
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 21 district · 286 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 430 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union (1979), Dennis v. United States (1951)
49 federal appellate · 21 district · 286 state decisions — followed in 32 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 · Thornhill v. Alabama · Schneider v. State · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co
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 430 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neutrals having no relation to either the dispute or the industry in which it arose,”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not doubt the right of the state to impose not only some but many restrictions upon peaceful picketing. Reasonable numbers, quietness, truthful placards, open ingress and egress, suitable hours or other proper limitations, not destructive of the right to tell of labor difficulties, may be required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““* * * for the avowed purpose of forcing and compelling plaintiff (Ritter) to require the said contractor, Plaster, to use and employ only members of the defendant unions on the building under construction. ’ ’”
2 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.