Gary R. Wall and William Cooksey, Sr. v. Construction & General Laborers' Union, Local 230, John Pezzente, Dominick Lopreato, and Charles Leconche’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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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.

1. “We do note that the state law claims might be reframed as Section 301 claims. However, appellants made no effort to assert them as federal claims even when they were represented by counsel and when the Union had asserted the defense of preemption. We leave to the sound discretion of the district court whether, on remand, to allow appellants leave to replead the claims in question as arising under federal law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 223 F. Supp. 2d 491 - Local Unions 20 v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America

2. “(i) `the defendant made a definite misrepresentation of fact, and had reason to believe that the plaintiff would rely on it'; and (ii) `the plaintiff reasonably relied on that misrepresentation to his detriment.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kavowras v. New York Times Co. & Newspaper & Mail Deliverers' Union

3. “inextricably intertwined with consideration of the terms of a labor contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 205 F. Supp. 2d 111 - Messina v. Local 1199 SEIU, National Health & Human Service Employees Union