Stapleton v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1989 · most notably Preiser v. Rodriguez (1973), Zwickler v. Koota (1967)
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Thornhill v. Alabama · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have not the right to decline the exercise of that jurisdiction simply because the rights asserted may be adjudicated in some other forum.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No one can intelligently challenge the right of government to regulate labor unions. It may regulate chambers of commerce, church organizations, or any of the innumerable associations formed for the mutual benefit of the members, when such activities come into conflict with public interest or the reasonable rights of others. So the State may, by appropriate regulation, protect laborers eligible to membership in unions against exploitation by unscrupulous agents, against exaction of unreasonable dues, or against fraud, or in many other ways, the same as it may protect the public against quacks of all kinds or as it may protect one business man against unfair trade practices by his competitor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to peaceably strike or to participate in one, to work or refuse to work, and to choose the terms and conditions under which one will work, like the right to make a speech, are fundamental human liberties which the state may not condition or abridge in the absence of grave and immediate danger to the community.”
1 later decision 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.