Sim’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 76 F. Supp. 2d 422 - Anderson v. Hedstrom Corp. (1999), Yarde v. Good Samaritan Hospital (2005)
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. O'Neill
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ad faith requires a showing of fraudulent, deceitful, or dishonest action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a causal connection between the union's wrongful conduct and their injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defer to the Union's interpretation of its governing documents unless that interpretation is patently unreasonable”
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.