Domino Sugar Corporation v. Sugar Workers Local Union of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.3d 1064 · 1993
Citation profile
180 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 652 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Austin v. Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc. (1996), Wagner v. Daewoo Heavy Industries America Corp. (2002)
180 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 16 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · Hormel v. Helvering · Atkinson v. Sinclair Refining Co.
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 652 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the plaintiff could save his action by merely amending the complaint.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no amendment [to the complaint] could cure the defects in the plaintiff's case.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, an order dismissing a complaint without prejudice is not an appeal-able final order under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 when ‘the plaintiff could save his action by merely amending his complaint.’ However, ‘if the grounds of the dismissal make clear that no amendment could cure the defects in the plaintiffs case, the order dismissing the complaint is final in fact,’ and appellate jurisdiction exists.”
4 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.