General Committee of Adjustment of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Southern Pacific Co.’s Empirical Analysis
320 U.S. 338 · 1943
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 15 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2010 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944)
112 federal appellate · 15 district · 9 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board · General Committee of Adjustment of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rr v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas R Co · General Committee of Adjustment of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for Pacific Lines of Southern Pac. Co. v. Southern Pac. Co.
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any dispute shall arise among a carrier's employees as to who are the representatives of such employees designated and authorized in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, it shall be the duty of the Mediation Board, upon request of either party to the dispute, to investigate such dispute and to certify to both parties, in writing, within thirty days after the receipt of the invocation of its services, the name or names of the individuals or organizations that have been designated and authorized to represent the employees involved in the dispute, and certify the same to the carrier. Upon receipt of such certification the carrier shall treat with the representative so certified as the representative of the craft or class for the purposes of this chapter. In such an investigation, the Mediation Board shall be authorized to take a secret ballot of the employees involved, or to utilize any other appropriate method of ascertaining the names of their duly designated and authorized representatives in such manner as shall insure the choice of representatives by the employees without interference, influence, or coercion exercised by the carrier.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“raise[d] the question whether one collective bargaining agent or the other is the proper representative for the presentation of certain claims to the employer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reason for differentiating this jurisdictional dispute from [those involved in Switchmen's Union and M-K-T ],”
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.