Cummings v. Connell’s Empirical Analysis
316 F.3d 886 · 2003
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably United Steel, Paper & Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing Energy, Allied Industrial & Service Workers International Union v. ConocoPhillips Co. (2010), Theme Promotions, Inc. v. News America Marketing FSI (2008)
15 federal appellate · 8 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 Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · International Ass'n of MacHinists v. Street · Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. Hudson
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unreasonable to think that the Union would resort to conduct that it had admitted in writing was constitutionally deficient.”
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.