United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4,675 federal appellate · 1,243 district · 1,957 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13,340 later decisions (159 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Perry v. Sindermann (1972), United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp (1960)
4,675 federal appellate · 1,243 district · 1,957 state decisions — followed in 47 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
reviewedUnited Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Wilko v. Swan · National Labor Relations Board v. Sands Manufacturing Co.
Cited together with United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Atkinson v. Sinclair Refining Co.
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 13,340 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitration is a matter of contract and a party cannot be required to submit to arbitration any dispute which he has not agreed so to submit.”
1,017 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce as defined in this chapter, or between any such labor organizations, may be brought in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the amount in controversy or without regard to the citizenship of the parties.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(s)hould differences arise . . . as to the meaning and application of the provisions of this Agreement,”
24 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.