| The state and the unions CL Tomlins CUP Archive, 1985 | 997 | 1985 |
| Law, labor, and ideology in the early American republic CL Tomlins Cambridge University Press, 1993 | 454 | 1993 |
| Freedom bound: Law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580–1865 C Tomlins Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 379 | 2010 |
| Framing the field of law's disciplinary encounters: A historical narrative C Tomlins Law & Soc'y Rev. 34, 911, 2000 | 169 | 2000 |
| The Many Legalities of Early America CL Tomlins, BH Mann UNC Press Books, 2012 | 154 | 2012 |
| The legal cartography of colonization, the legal polyphony of settlement: English intrusions on the American mainland in the seventeenth century C Tomlins Law & Social Inquiry 26 (2), 315-372, 2001 | 111 | 2001 |
| AFL unions in the 1930s: their performance in historical perspective CL Tomlins The Journal of American History 65 (4), 1021-1042, 1979 | 111 | 1979 |
| How autonomous is law? C Tomlins Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci. 3, 45-68, 2007 | 92 | 2007 |
| The New Deal, collective bargaining, and the triumph of industrial pluralism CL Tomlins ILR Review 39 (1), 19-34, 1985 | 70 | 1985 |
| Freedom Bound C Tomlins Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865, 2010 | 67 | 2010 |
| What is left of the law and society paradigm after critique? Revisiting gordon's “critical legal histories” C Tomlins Law & Social Inquiry 37 (1), 155-166, 2012 | 65 | 2012 |
| A mysterious power: Industrial accidents and the legal construction of employment relations in Massachusetts, 1800-1850 CL Tomlins Law and History Review 6 (2), 375-438, 1988 | 65 | 1988 |
| Law As... Theory and Practice in Legal History C Tomlins, J Comaroff UC Irvine L. Rev. 1, 1039, 2011 | 58 | 2011 |
| Subordination, Authority, Law: Subjects in Labor History C Tomlins International Labor and Working-Class History 47, 56-90, 1995 | 56 | 1995 |
| Reconsidering indentured servitude: European migration and the early American labor force, 1600–1775 C Tomlins Labor History 42 (1), 5-43, 2001 | 55 | 2001 |
| After critical legal history: Scope, scale, structure C Tomlins Annual Review of Law and Social Science 8, 31-68, 2012 | 52 | 2012 |
| The Cambridge history of law in America M Grossberg, CL Tomlins Cambridge University Press 3, 442-71, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
| The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice CL Tomlins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005 | 40 | 2005 |
| History in the American Juridical Field: Narrative, Justification, and Explanation C Tomlins Yale JL & Human. 16, 323, 2004 | 37 | 2004 |
| Necessities of state: police, sovereignty, and the constitution C Tomlins Journal of policy history 20 (1), 47-63, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
