Bakery & Pastry Drivers & Helpers Local 802 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Wohl’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 769 · 1942
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 20 district · 302 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 561 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell (1947)
73 federal appellate · 20 district · 302 state decisions — followed in 34 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 · Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co · Opera on Tour, Inc. v. Weber
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 561 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Picketing by an organized group is more than free speech, since it involves patrol of a particular locality and since the very presence of a picket line may induce action of one kind or another, quite irrespective of the nature of the ideas which are being disseminated. Hence those aspects of picketing make it the subject of restrictive regulation.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] state is not required to tolerate in all places and all circumstances even peaceful picketing by an individual.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . one need not be in a ‘labor dispute’ as defined by state law to have a right under the Fourteenth Amendment to express a grievance in'a labor matter by publication unattended by violence, coercion, or conduct otherwise unlawful or oppressive.””
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.