Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
1,460 federal appellate · 559 district · 1,075 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,794 later decisions (212 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Mathews v. Eldridge (1976)
1,460 federal appellate · 559 district · 1,075 state decisions — followed in 49 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
reviewedCafeteria and Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473, Afl-Cio v. Neil H. McElroy Individually and as Secretary of Defense (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 5031 · 10 U.S.C. § 6011
Relies on Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Greene v. McElroy · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM
Cited together with Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Goldberg v. Kelly · Morrissey v. Brewer · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Mathews v. Eldridge
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 4,794 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The very nature of due process negates any concept of inflexible procedures universally applicable to every imaginable situation.”
198 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'not a case where government action ... operated to bestow a badge of disloyalty or infamy, with an attendant foreclosure from other employment opportunity.'”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One may not have a constitutional right to go to Bagdad, but the Government may not prohibit one from going there unless by means consonant with due process of law.”
7 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.