Dunlop v. Bachowski’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
533 federal appellate · 194 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,447 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization (1976), Heckler v. Chaney (1985)
533 federal appellate · 194 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedBachowski v. Brennan (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Vaca v. Sipes · Leedom v. Kyne · Trbovich v. United Mine Workers
Cited together with Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Heckler v. Chaney · Wirtz v. Local 153 Glass Bottle Blowers Association · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
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 1,447 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to protect unions from frivolous litigation and unnecessary interference with their elections.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only upon a showing of 'clear and convincing evidence' of a contrary legislative intent should the courts restrict access to judicial review.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'enable a court to determine whether the [Commission's] decision was reached for an impermissible reason or for no reason at all,'”
15 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.