United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 395 · 1947
Citation profile
483 federal appellate · 21 district · 202 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 984 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs (1966)
483 federal appellate · 21 district · 202 state decisions — followed in 30 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
reviewedLumber Products Ass'n v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United States v. Atkinson · Weems v. United States · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · Sibbach v. Wilson & 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 984 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible or liable in any court of the United States for the unlawful acts of individual officers, members, or agents, except upon clear proof of actual participation in, or actual authorization of, such acts, or of ratification of such acts after actual knowledge thereof.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sisco v. McNutt · Scott v. Moore“[a] failure to charge correctly is not harmless, since the verdict might have resulted from the incorrect instruction”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“change[ ] the substantive law of agency,”
10 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.