Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board’s Empirical Analysis
320 U.S. 297 · 1943
Citation profile
676 federal appellate · 182 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,427 later decisions (142 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp (1970), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
676 federal appellate · 182 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedSwitchmen's Union v. National Mediation Board (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States
Cited together with General Committee of Adjustment of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rr v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas R Co · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Leedom v. Kyne · Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees v. Association for the Benefit of Non-Contract Employees · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley
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 1,427 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no dragging out of the controversy into other tribunals of law.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but for the general jurisdiction of the federal courts there would be no remedy to enforce the statutory commands which Congress had written into the Railway Labor Act.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dispute . . . among a carrier's employees”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.