Spellacy II’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. v. Beckett (2004), 79 F. Supp. 2d 394 - Beckman v. United States Postal Service (2000)
6 district · 1 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 Vaca v. Sipes · Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. O'Neill · Cruz v. Local Union Number of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Mock v. T.G. & Y. Stores 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bad faith encompasses fraud, dishonesty, and other intentionally misleading conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[4] To proye that a union has breached its duty of fair representation, the chai- lenging members must establish two elements. First, they must prove that the union’s actions or inactions are either ‘arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.’ Second, the challenging members must demonstrate a causal connection between the union’s wrongful conduct and their injuries.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A union breaches its duty of fair representation if its actions 'can fairly be characterized as so far outside a wide range of reasonableness ... that [they are] wholly arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.'”
3 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.