Nix v. Spector Freight System, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
264 F.2d 875 · 1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2004
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on J. I. Case Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · Washington Terminal Co. v. Boswell · State v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither Local 478 nor the Spector employees who gained seniority rights at appellants’ expense have been brought into this litigation. Yet, no more than the foregoing statement of the claim here asserted is necessary to make it obvious that the relief sought seriously and intimately affects and concerns them. Appellants cannot have the arbitration award set aside or their contract enforced as they ask unless the court shall deprive the union and certain union members of the benefit of a favorable arbitration award and impose a contrary interpretation of the controlling contract, in derogation of seniority benefits now being enjoyed. Cf. McMurray v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 3 Cir. 1931, 54 F.2d 923 . Any such effect on interested persons makes their presence or representation essential to the litigation. Cf. Shields v. Barrow, 1854, 17 How. 129 , 15 L.Ed. 158 ; State of Washington v. United States, 9 Cir., 1936, 87 F.2d 421 .” Nix v. Spector Freight System, Inc., 264 F.2d 875, 877 .”
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.