Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
392 federal appellate · 118 district · 633 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,704 later decisions (109 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck (1985), Lingle v. Norge Division of Magic Chef, Inc. (1988)
392 federal appellate · 118 district · 633 state decisions — followed in 40 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 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. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Garner v. Teamsters, Chauffeurs & Helpers Local Union No. 776
Cited together with Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation 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 1,704 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'nothing in the concept of our federal system prevents state courts from enforcing rights created by federal law.'”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'to make collective bargaining agreements enforceable only in the courts.'”
13 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.