Bakery Sales Drivers Local Union No. 33 v. Wagshal’s Empirical Analysis
333 U.S. 437 · 1948
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2003 · most notably United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (1965), Mancusi v. Stubbs (1972)
76 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 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
reviewedBakery Sales Drivers Local Union No. 33 v. Wagshal (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 110 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 113 (Norris-LaGuardia Act)
Relies on Hunt v. Crumboch · Columbia River Packers Ass'n v. Hinton · Dorchy v. State of Kansas · Bakery Sales Drivers Local Union No. 33 v. Wagshal
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) The term 'labor dispute' includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The short answer to the argument that the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, 61 Stat. 136, 149, § 10(h), has removed the limitations of the Norris-LaGuardia Act upon the power to issue injunctions against what are known as secondary boycotts, is that the law has been changed only where an injunction is sought by the National Labor Relations Board, not where proceedings are instituted by a private party. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by its overwhelming business context: 120 To hold that under such circumstances a failure of two businessmen to come to terms created a labor dispute merely because what one of them sought might have affected the work of a particular employee of the other, would be to turn almost every controversy between sellers and buyers over price, quantity, quality, delivery, payment, credit, or any other business transaction into a”
1 later decision 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.