International Longshoremen's Ass'n, Local 1291 v. Philadelphia Marine Trade Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
429 federal appellate · 51 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 947 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Golden State Bottling Company Inc v. National Labor Relations Board (1973), Granny Goose Foods, Inc. v. Brotherhood of Teamsters & Auto Truck Drivers, Local No. 70 (1974)
429 federal appellate · 51 district · 96 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad · Sinclair Refining Co. v. Atkinson
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 947 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judicial contempt power is a potent weapon. When it is founded upon a decree too vague to be understood, it can be a deadly one.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every order granting an injunction and every restraining order shall set forth the reasons for its issuance; shall be specific in terms; shall describe in reasonable detail, and not by reference to the complaint or other document, the act or acts sought to be restrained; and is binding only upon the parties to the action, their officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and upon those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive actual notice of the order by personal service or otherwise.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an operative command capable of 'enforcement'”
10 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.