Robins v. Rarback’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.2d 929 · 1963
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Calhoon v. Harvey (1964), Leonhard v. United States (1980)
20 federal appellate · 4 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 Goss v. Board of Education · Salzhandler v. Caputo · Nicholas Mamula v. United Steelworkers of America, an Unincorporated Labor Union, and I. W. Abel, International Secretary-Treasurer Thereof · Harvey v. Calhoon
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 101(a)(1) Equal Rights.-Every member of a labor organization shall have equal rights and privileges within such organization to nominate candidates, to vote in elections or referendums of the labor organization, to attend membership meetings, and to participate in the deliberations and voting upon the business of such meetings, subject to reasonable rules and regulations in such organization's constitution and bylaws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the right to vote guaranteed by Section 101(a)(1) is to be at all meaningful the section must be regarded as demanding more than a simple provision in a union’s constitution or by-laws formally stating that all members are entitled to cast a ballot. The majority’s interpretation of this section, if my assessment of it is correct, reduces the guarantee of the right to vote to little more than this.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“construe the language of [§ 101(a)(1)] as granting authority to the federal courts to control and direct the entire conduct of union elections on the theory that the right to vote is a right to cast an `effective' vote, and that a vote cannot be effective unless the election is properly conducted in all its aspects.”
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.