Drake Bakeries Incorporated v. Local 50 American Bakery Confectionery Workers International’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
433 federal appellate · 73 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 988 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Vaca v. Sipes (1967), Smith v. Evening News Assn. (1962)
433 federal appellate · 73 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedDrake Bakeries Inc. v. Local 50, American Bakery & Confectionery Workers International (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 173 (§ 203 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley 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. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company
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 988 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stabilizing influence of the collective bargaining contract.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all complaints, disputes or grievances arising between them (the parties) involving questions of interpretation or application of any clause or matter covered by this contract or any act or conduct or relation between the parties hereto, directly or indirectly.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the union did strike in violation of the contract, the company is entitled to its damages; by staying this action, pending arbitration, we have no intention of depriving it of those damages. We simply remit the company to the forum it agreed to use for processing its strike damage claims. That forum, it is true, may be very different from a courtroom, but we are not persuaded that the remedy there will be inadequate.”
5 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.