Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America v. Ironall Factories Co.’s Empirical Analysis
386 F.2d 586 · 1967
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007 · most notably International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150 v. Flair Builders, Inc. (1972), International Union v. Cummins, Inc. (2006)
27 federal appellate · 3 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Atkinson v. Sinclair Refining 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a decision on laches adds or subtracts nothing from the meaning of the agreement. Furthermore, consideration of the issue [of laches] in no way involves a consideration of the merits of the underlying substantive issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Questions concerning the procedural prerequisites to arbitration do not arise in a vacuum; they develop in the context of an actual dispute about the rights of the parties to the contract or those covered by it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“involve claims by one of the parties that the other party has failed to follow the procedural conditions specified in the collective bargaining agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.