Fred Wolferman, Inc. v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 1984 · most notably Construction & General Labor Union, Local No. 688 v. Stephenson (1950), Missouri Cafeteria, Inc. v. McVey (1951)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Thornhill v. Alabama · American Federation of Labor v. Swing · Bakery & Pastry Drivers & Helpers Local 802 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Wohl · Senn v. Tile Layers Protective Union · Carlson v. People of State of California
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from establishing any picket line or lines in and about plaintiff's stores or places of business which would affect, destroy or interfere with the receipt and delivery of merchandise to and from plaintiff's stores and places of business in the usual and ordinary course of business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An act by an employer which would be a crime or a violation of a legislative enactment or contrary to defined public policy is not a proper object of concerted action against him by workers.” (Torts, § 794.)-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“long recognized the connection between peaceful picketing and the constitutional guaranty of free speech.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.