Postma v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters’s Empirical Analysis
337 F.2d 609 · 1964
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2009
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on De Veau v. Braisted · Texas v. New Mexico · United States v. Union Supply Co. · United States v. Postma
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.
““The time has long since passed when platitudes as to ‘plain meaning’ or strictures as to the strict construction of penal statutes can procure judicial refusal to reach a result sufficiently indicated by the legislature’s words.” Postma v. Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, Local 294, 337 F. 2d 609, 610 (2 Cir. 1964).”
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.