Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 727 v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
337 U.S. 521 · 1949
Citation profile
233 federal appellate · 15 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 377 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci (1953), Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (1986)
233 federal appellate · 15 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
reviewedAeronautical Industrial Dist. Lodge 727 v. Campbell (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Trailmobile Co. v. Whirls · Gauweiler v. Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of America · Howell v. Jones
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 377 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]eniority rights derive their scope and significance from union contracts, confined as they almost exclusively are to unionized industry.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to a position of like seniority, status, and pay”
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.