Wirtz v.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 24 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Dunlop v. Bachowski (1975), Wirtz v. Local 153 Glass Bottle Blowers Association (1968)
106 federal appellate · 24 district · 5 state decisions
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
reviewedW. Willard Wirtz v. Local Union No. 125 (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 481 · 29 U.S.C. § 482 · 29 U.S.C. § 521
Relies on National Licorice Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Wirtz v. Local 153 Glass Bottle Blowers Association · Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · National Labor Relations Board v. Fant Milling 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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which the union had a fair opportunity to consider and redress in connection with a member's initial complaint.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Act was not designed merely to protect the right of a union member to run for a particular union office in a particular election.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * no view on the merits of the Secretary’s argument that a member’s protest triggers a § 402 enforcement action in which the Secretary would be permitted to file suit challenging any violation of § 401 discovered in his investigation of the member’s complaint.” (Emphasis ours) p. 482, 88 S.Ct. p. 641.”
6 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.