International Ass'n of MacHinists v. Street’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
620 federal appellate · 161 district · 179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,627 later decisions (140 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
620 federal appellate · 161 district · 179 state decisions — followed in 24 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78O (§ 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 18 U.S.C. § 610 · 26 U.S.C. § 162 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Screws v. United States · Thornhill v. Alabama · Shelley v. Kraemer · Crowell v. Benson
Cited together with Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes v. Allen · Ellis v. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. Hudson
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 1,627 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal statutes are to be so construed as to avoid serious doubt of their constitutionality.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dissent is not to be presumed--it must affirmatively be made known to the union by the dissenting employee”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deny the unions, over an employee's objection, the power to use his exacted funds to support political causes which he opposes.”
9 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.