Transportation-Communication Employees Union v. Union Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
326 federal appellate · 63 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 707 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. (1989), Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen v. Southern Railway Co. (1967)
326 federal appellate · 63 district · 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedOrder of Railroad Telegraphers v. Union Pacific Railroad (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 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 707 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider the scope of other related collective bargaining agreements, as well as the practice, usage and custom pertaining to all such agreements.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to resolve th[e] entire dispute not only upon the contract between the railroad and [employees], but 'in light of ... [contracts] between the railroad' and any other union 'involved' in the overall dispute, and upon consideration of 'evidence as to usage, practice and custom' pertinent to all these agreements.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clerks' union . . . is 'involved,' " Id., the Court held that the refusal of one union to participate in an arbitration proceeding involving the other contestant in a work assignment dispute was not only unjustified, but resulted in the Board's failure to comply with its enabling statute, providing for " 'the Prompt and Orderly settlement of All disputes . . .,' . . . § 2(5). (Emphasis supplied.)”
4 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.