Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2012
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · United States v. McConney · Rodriguez v. New York
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable rules as to the responsibility of every member toward the organization as an institution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would have lost their jobs as well as their union membership had they refused to pay the fines”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the union members [in those cases] were employed under a union shop provision”
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.