Pipefitters Local Union No. 562 v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 18 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Cort v. Ash (1975), First National Bank of Boston v. X Bellotti (1978)
160 federal appellate · 18 district · 23 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 109 · 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 610
Relies on Russell v. United States · Yates v. United States · Grunewald v. United States · Hagner v. United States · Hartman v. United States
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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the establishment, administration and solicitation of contributions to a separate segregated fund to be utilized for political purposes by a * * * labor organization.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any labor organization to make a contribution or expenditure in connection with any (federal election, primary or political convention)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any direct or indirect payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money, or any services, or anything of value ... to any candidate, campaign committee, or political party or organization, in connection with any election to any of the offices referred to in this section.”
5 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.