International Union of Operating Engineers v. Dahlem Const. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
193 F.2d 470 · 1951
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company (1962), Association of Westinghouse Salaried Employees v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1955)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on International Union of United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Cio v. O'Brien · Boeing Airplane Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · 91 F. Supp. 596 - Boeing Airplane Co. v. Aeronautical Industrial Dist. Lodge No. 751 · Oil Workers International Union, Local No. 463 v. Texoma Natural Gas 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the principal of law that a contract of indeterminate duration may become terminable by the unilateral action on the part of either party after a reasonable lapse of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A notice to terminate must be clear and explicit. . . . A notice of modification is not a notice of termination and does not affect termination of the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for what [that] court actually held was that the contract could be terminated after proper notice....”
2 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.