Calhoon v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
459 federal appellate · 156 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,221 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Cort v. Ash (1975), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
459 federal appellate · 156 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedHarvey v. Calhoon (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 412 · 29 U.S.C. § 481 · 29 U.S.C. § 482 · 29 U.S.C. § 483
Relies on Bell v. Hood · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · United States v. Classic · Gomillion v. Lightfoot · Smith v. Allwright
Cited together with Wirtz v. Local 153 Glass Bottle Blowers Association · Trbovich v. United Mine Workers · Cort v. Ash · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. National Assn. of Railroad Passengers · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rigsby
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 1,221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reliance on the discretion of the Secretary is in harmony with the general congressional policy to allow unions great latitude in resolving their own internal controversies, and, where that fails, to utilize the agencies of Government most familiar with union problems to aid in bringing about a settlement through discussion before resort to the courts.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is no more than a command that members and classes of members shall not be discriminated against in their right to nominate and vote.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every member of a labor organization shall have equal rights and privileges within such organization to nominate candidates, to vote in elections or referendums of the labor organization, to attend membership meetings, and to participate in the deliberations and voting upon the business of such meetings, subject to reasonable rules and regulations in such organization’s constitution and bylaws.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.