Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
957 federal appellate · 269 district · 597 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,048 later decisions (119 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California (1983), Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux (1987)
957 federal appellate · 269 district · 597 state decisions — followed in 42 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. § 1257 · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.
Cited together with Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Lingle v. Norge Division of Magic Chef, Inc. · Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney
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 3,048 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would inevitably exert a disruptive influence”
122 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“basic policy of national labor legislation to promote the arbitral process as a substitute for economic warfare.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress deliberately chose to leave the enforcement of collective agreements 'to the usual processes of law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.