Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 797 · 1945
Citation profile
448 federal appellate · 92 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,070 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), United Mine Workers v. Pennington (1965)
448 federal appellate · 92 district · 56 state decisions
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
reviewedAllen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3 (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · United States v. Borden Co. · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n
Cited together with United States v. Hutcheson · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · Connell Construction Co. v. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 100 · United Mine Workers v. Pennington
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 1,070 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“participated with a combination of business men who had complete power to eliminate all competition among themselves and to prevent all competition from others,”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“So long as a union acts in its self-interest and does not combine with non-labor groups, [footnote omitted] the licit and the illicit . . . are not to be distinguished by any judgment regarding the wisdom or unwisdom, the rightness or wrongness, the selfishness or unselfishness of the end of which the particular union activities are the means.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The result of all this is that we have two declared congressional policies which it is our responsibility to try to reconcile. The one seeks to preserve a competitive business economy; the other to preserve the rights of labor to organize to better its conditions through the agency of collective bargaining. We must determine here how far Congress intended activities under one of these policies to neutralize the results envisioned by the other.”
11 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.