Butler v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.2d 831 · 1951
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Edwards v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad (1966), Sigfred v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1956)
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Broady v. Illinois Cent. R. · Brooks v. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can find no provision of the Railway Labor Act which gives to employees the right to a representative of their own choice at an investigation by company officials of a charge that the employee has violated company rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In investigations, conferences or hearings by or before officers of the carrier an existing legal contract [collective bargaining agreement] controls, whereas the procedure before the Board is controlled by the statute.”
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.