Hill v. State of Florida Watson’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 538 · 1945
Citation profile
120 federal appellate · 48 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 584 later decisions (114 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon (1959), Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. (1947)
120 federal appellate · 48 district · 180 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Hines v. Davidowitz · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Parker v. Brown · United States v. Darby · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc.
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 584 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This, of course, does not mean that labor unions or their officers are immune, in other respects, from the exercise of the state’s police power to punish fraud, violence, or other forms of misconduct, either because of the commerce clause or the National Labor Relations Act.””
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.