75 F. Supp. 672 - Douds v. Metropolitan Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists & Technicians, Local 231’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1991 · most notably National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board (1967), Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. (1969)
57 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 163 (§ 13 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Rutherford Food Corp. v. McComb · Bakery & Pastry Drivers & Helpers Local 802 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Wohl · Carpenters and Joiners Union of America Local No 213 v. Ritter's Cafe · Douds v. Local 294, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This provision makes it unlawful to resort to a secondary boycott to injure the business of a third person who is wholly unconcerned in the disagreement between an employer and his employees.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the union was not extending its activity to a front remote from the immediate dispute but to one intimately and indeed inextricably united to it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cease doing business with any other person”
2 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.