Donovan v. Travers’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably System Federation No. 59 of Railway Employees Department of American Federation of Labor v. Louisiana & A. Ry. Co. (1941), Estes v. Union Terminal Co. (1937)
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Smith v. Vose & Sons Piano Co. · Richards v. Morison · Snay v. Collis · Whiting Milk Companies v. Grondin · Hickey v. Baine
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled law that members of an unincorporated, voluntary association, like the brotherhood, are bound by the determination of the association’s tribunals if the decision is reached after observance of the formalities it prescribes, after fair opportunity for presenting their case, where there has been no excess of jurisdiction, no bad faith or capricious, unreasonable or arbitrary action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * The employee stands no higher than the union. If it modifies the agreement with the employer, the employee must acquiesce.””
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.