Breda v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 908 · 1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2020
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Atkinson v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Fu-Kong Tzung Jean Tzung v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, and Does 1 Through 100, Inclusive · Peterson v. Kennedy · Montplaisir v. Leighton · Building Material & Dump Truck Drivers, Local 420 v. Traweek
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n attorney who performs services for and on behalf of a union may not be held liable in malpractice to individual grievants where the services performed constitute a part of the collective bargaining process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carino v. Stefan“permitting malpractice suits whenever a union's legal strategies fail”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“essentially political and strategic decisions of the union.”
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.