John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
1,683 federal appellate · 422 district · 677 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,656 later decisions (65 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers (1986), United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc. (1987)
1,683 federal appellate · 422 district · 677 state decisions — followed in 45 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
reviewedLivingston v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 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. · Atkinson v. Sinclair Refining Co.
Cited together with United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · Atkinson v. Sinclair Refining 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 4,656 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once it is determined ... that the parties are obligated to submit the subject matter of a dispute to arbitration, 'procedural' questions which grow out of the dispute and bear on its final disposition should be left to the arbitrator.”
169 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he duty to arbitrate being of contractual origin, a compulsory submission to arbitration cannot precede judicial determination that the collective bargaining agreement does in fact create such a duty.”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The objectives of national labor policy, reflected in established principles of federal law, require that the rightful prerogative of owners independently to rearrange their businesses and even eliminate themselves as employers be balanced by some protection to the employees from a sudden change in the employment relationship.”
29 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.