Salvation Army Case’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Emerick (1953), Tubner v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1981)
50 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.
Relationships
Relies on Young Mens Christian Assoc. of Germantown v. Phila. · Orlosky v. Haskell · Blake v. Wilson · American Sunday School Union v. City of Philadelphia · Western Pennsylvania Hospital v. Lichliter
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Representatives and elections (a) Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employes in a unit appropriate for such purposes, shall be the exclusive representatives of all the employes in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . not mean to decide or imply that whenever a non-profit organization does enter an industrial field, even though its profits may be devoted to charity, it is exempted from the taxes and regulations such as the Labor Relations Act to which any other industry or business is subjected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The phrases: `within and between industries', `sweat shops,' `production and consumption,' `business depressions' and `industrial strife and unrest' certainly do not relate to charitable or eleemosynary associations.”
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.