International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 37 v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
323 federal appellate · 250 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,056 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably O'Shea v. Littleton (1974), Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974)
323 federal appellate · 250 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · David Muskrat v. · Alabama State Federation of Labor Local v. McAdory · 111 F. Supp. 802 - International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Local 37 v. Boyd
Cited together with United Families of America v. Kendrick · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · United Families of America v. Kendrick
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 1,056 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellants in effect asked the District Court to rule that a statute the sanctions of which had not been set in motion against individuals on whose behalf relief was sought, because an occasion for doing so had not arisen, would not be applied to them if in the future such a contingency should arise. That is not a lawsuit to enforce a right; it is an endeavor to obtain a court’s assurance that a statute does not govern hypothetical situations that may or may not make the challenged statute applicable. Determination of the scope and constitutionality of legislation in advance of its immediate adverse effect in the context of a concrete case involves too remote and abstract an inquiry for the proper exercise of the judicial function.””
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the wearisome routine of immigration procedure as though [he] had never lived here,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.