Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
839 federal appellate · 143 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,727 later decisions (81 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox (1965), Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 (1970)
839 federal appellate · 143 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChicago River & Indiana Railroad v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 108 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 155 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
Cited together with Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
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 1,727 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gro[w] out of grievances or out of the interpretation or application of agreements covering rates of pay, rules, or working conditions.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are controversies over the meaning of an existing collective bargaining agreement in a particular fact situation, generally involving only one employee.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * provisions [of the Act] dealing with the Adjustment Board were to be considered as compulsory arbitration in this limited field. Our reading of the Act is therefore confirmed, not rebutted, by the legislative history.”
15 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.