Schrank v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The International President shall have the direction and supervision of all district and local lodges, with full authority to suspend individual members, or district or local lodges, for incompetency, negligence, insubordination, or other failure to properly perform their duties as members of this Organization and for violation of the provisions of the Constitution of the Grand Lodge or the constitution of local lodges.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 212 F. Supp. 233 - Nelson v. Johnson

2. ““The propriety of such action is of no concern to the court, since the internal affairs of a union will not be interfered with by the courts and the parties will usually be left to their recourse to the machinery for redressing wrongs in the union’s rules. Where no power exists under the constitution of the union to act, the court will interfere in the first instance to enjoin an unwarranted exercise of power.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 212 F. Supp. 233 - Nelson v. Johnson

3. ““Fair criticism is the right of members of a union, as it is the right of every citizen. A provision of a union constitution, which would suppress protests of members against actions of their officers which such members regarded as improper or opposed to their best' interests, would be illegal and unenforcible.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 212 F. Supp. 233 - Nelson v. Johnson