Tuma v. American Can Company’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1997 · most notably Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union (1981), Perez v. Dana Corporation Parish Frame Division (1983)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Vaca v. Sipes · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · United States v. American Trucking Associations · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for any tortious injury to the rights of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a tortious injury to the rights of another”
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.