Tyra v. Kearney’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2003
2 federal appellate · 13 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 San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114 · Farmer v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 25 · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. San Diego County District Council of Carpenters · Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
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.
“neither the language nor the legislative history of the [ LMRDA ] suggests that it was intended even to address the issue of union patronage. [Fn. omitted.] ... [ถ] ... Nothing in the [LMRDA] evinces a congressional intent to alter the traditional pattern which would permit a [newly elected] union president under [ the ] circumstances [ presented by this case ] to appoint agents of his choice to carry out his policies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress simply was not concerned with perpetuating appointed union employees in office at the expense of an elected president's freedom to choose his own staff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Act's overriding objective was to ensure that unions would be democratically governed, and responsive to the will of the union membership as expressed in open, periodic elections. [Citation.] Far from being inconsistent with this purpose, the ability of an elected union president to select his own administrators is an integral part of ensuring a union administration's responsiveness to the mandate of the union election.”
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.