Trailmobile Co. v. Whirls’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 40 · 1947
Citation profile
215 federal appellate · 21 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 395 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci (1953), United States v. Wise (1962)
215 federal appellate · 21 district · 24 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
reviewedTrailmobile Co. v. Whirls (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Hormel v. Helvering · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Angel v. Bullington · Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · J. I. Case Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 395 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) (1) Any person who is restored to a position in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (A) or (B) of subsection (b) [of this section] shall be considered as having been on furlough or leave of absence during his period of training and service in the armed forces, shall be so restored without loss of seniority, shall be entitled to participate in insurance or other benefits offered by the employer pursuant to established rules and practices relating to employees on furlough or leave of absence in effect with the employer at the time such person was inducted into such forces, and shall not be discharged from such position without cause within one year after such restoration "(2) It is declared to be the sense of the Congress that any person who is restored to a position in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (A) or (B) of subsection (b) [of this section] should be so restored in such manner as to give him such status in his employment as he would have enjoyed if he had continued in such employment continuously from the time of his entering the armed forces until the time of his restoration to such employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he interpretation of statutes cannot safely be made to rest upon mute intermediate legislative maneuvers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]eniority arises only out of contract or statute.”
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.