Bower v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
214 F.2d 623 · 1954
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. (1966), International Association of Machinists v. Central Airlines Inc (1963)
36 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 45 U.S.C. § 184 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Moore v. Illinois Central Railroad · Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. v. Koppal · Washington Terminal Co. v. Boswell · Baltimore or Co v. Brady
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Whether we say that the party is bound by his own voluntary election between an administrative and an alternative judicial remedy, or describe the party who initiated the administrative proceeding as estopped from denying its agreed final and binding character, or view this as an application of the rationale of res judicata,.in a new area, we are satisfied that the court should declare and enforce a rule of repose against the reexamination of the merits of plaintiff’s claim in this case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alleged mistakes of law and erroneous evaluation of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended that [adjustment board awards] should be circumvented by free resort to judicial review or determination de novo of the merits of the controversy.””
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.