Eleanor McNamara-Blad v. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants’s Empirical Analysis
275 F.3d 1165 · 2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Howard · Reno v. Kim Ho Ma
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.
“[t]he work-forces of the two merging carrier become a single bargaining unit only when the carriers become a `single carrier' ... American and Reno did not become a `single carrier' for representational purposes until August 31, 1999, after the seniority agreement between the APFA and American was reached.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“would force unions to protect the interests of any person who might become a bargaining unit member to the detriment of current bargaining unit members. Such a duty would contravene the union's statutory duty to protect the interests of its own bargaining unit members.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not extend to persons who are not employees in the bargaining unit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.