Walker v. Southern Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 24 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Vaca v. Sipes (1967), McCarthy v. Madigan (1992)
119 federal appellate · 24 district · 21 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad · Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co.
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(p)rovision for arbitration of a discharge grievance, a minor dispute, is not a matter of voluntary agreement under the Railway Labor Act”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * a discharged railroad employee aggrieved by the discharge may either (1) pursue his remedy under the administrative procedures established by an applicable collective bargaining agreement subject to the Railway Labor Act, and his right of review before the National Railroad Adjustment Board, or (2) if he accepts his discharge as final, bring an action at law in an appropriate state court for money damages if the state courts recognize such a claim.””
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.