Regal Knitwear Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 9 · 1945
Citation profile
405 federal appellate · 70 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 946 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. (1949), Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (1945)
405 federal appellate · 70 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 18 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Regal Knitwear Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Express Publishing Co. · J. I. Case Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Link-Belt 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 946 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is derived from the common-law doctrine that a decree of injunction not only binds the parties defendant but also those identified with them in interest, in 'privity' with them, represented by them or subject to their control.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'order[s] or injunction[s] so broad as to make punishable the conduct of persons who act independently and whose rights have not been adjudged according to law.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“officers, agents, successors, and assigns”
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.