Wegscheid v. Local Union International Union United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 986 · 1997
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Wooley v. Maynard · Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America v. P Lockridge
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he only realistic explanation for the retention of the statutory language in collective bargaining agreements is to mislead employees about their right not to join the union”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The case became moot when the settlement of the count ... gave the plaintiffs all the relief they sought ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.