Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1,078 federal appellate · 249 district · 184 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,893 later decisions (133 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California (1983)
1,078 federal appellate · 249 district · 184 state decisions — followed in 24 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
reviewedBoys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerk's Union, Local 770 (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 108 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations 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. · Richards v. United States
Cited together with Buffalo Forge Co. v. United Steelworkers · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers
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 2,893 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that injunctive relief is appropriate as a matter of course in every case of a strike over an arbitrable grievance.”
103 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“No court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of any labor dispute to prohibit any person or persons participating or interested in such dispute ... from doing, whether singly or in concert, any of the following acts: * * * * * * (c) Paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person participating or interested in such labor dispute, any strike or unemployment benefits or insurance, or other moneys or things of value ...”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in any case involving or growing out of any labor dispute.”
18 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.