Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
178 federal appellate · 60 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 514 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977), Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. Hudson (1986)
178 federal appellate · 60 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on International Ass'n of MacHinists v. Street · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · Lathrop v. Donohue · In re Disbarment of Chopak
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 514 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince the unions possess the facts and records from which the proportion of political to total union expenditures can reasonably be calculated, basic considerations of fairness compel that they, not the individual employees, bear the burden of proving such proportion.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“interim relief against compliance with the financial obligations imposed by ... [collective bargaining] [a]greements.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an injunction against expenditure for political causes opposed by each complaining employee of a sum, from those moneys to be spent by the union for political purposes, which is so much of the moneys exacted from him as is the proportion of the union's total expenditures made for such political activities to the union's total budget”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.