McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.’s Empirical Analysis
336 U.S. 187 · 1949
Citation profile
789 federal appellate · 226 district · 400 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,261 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Ass'n v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1986), 123 Wash. 2d 641 - State v. Hill (1994)
789 federal appellate · 226 district · 400 state decisions — followed in 34 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
reviewedJacksonville Paper Co. v. McComb (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Swift Company v. United States · Porter v. Warner Holding Co.
Cited together with United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Shillitani v. United States · International Longshoremen's Ass'n, Local 1291 v. Philadelphia Marine Trade Ass'n · International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell · Maggio v. Zeitz
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 2,261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it matters not with what intent the defendant did the prohibited act.”
58 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The measure of the court's power in civil contempt proceedings is determined by the requirements of full remedial relief.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It does not lie in their mouths to say that they have an immunity from civil contempt because the plan or scheme which they adopted was not specifically enjoined. Such a rule would give tremendous impetus to [a] program of experimentation with disobedience of the law. . . .”
21 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.