Bath v. Pixler’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2021
8 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Antonio Copra v. Jose A. Suro · Employing Plasterers' Ass'n of Chicago v. Journeymen Plasterers' Protective & Benevolent Society of Chicago · Barrett v. Miller · 172 F. Supp. 895 - Sanders v. Birthright
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a legal controversy, not a dispute over the practical administration of the trust”
4 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.