International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge v. Bf Goodrich Aerospace Aerostructures Group’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 3 state decisions

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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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “in determining whether a hired party is an employee under the general common law of agency, we consider the hiring party’s right to control the manner and means by which the product is accomplished. Among the other factors relevant to this inquiry are the skill required; the source of the instrumentalities and tools; the location of the work; the duration of the relationship between the parties; whether the hiring party has the right to assign additional projects to the hired party; the extent of the hired party’s discretion over when and how long to work; the method of payment; the hired party’s role in hiring and paying assistants; whether the work is part of the regular business of the hiring party; whether the hiring party is in business; the provision of employee benefits; and the tax treatment of the hired party.... Since the common-law test contains no shorthand formula or magic phrase that can be applied to find the answer ... all of the incidents of the relationship must be assessed and weighed with no one factor being decisive. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Darden, 503 U.S. 318, 323-24 , 112 S.Ct. 1344 , 117 L.Ed.2d 581 (1992) (quotation marks omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Titan Tire Corp. v. United Steel

2. “A statute is ambiguous when it is capable of being understood by reasonably informed persons in two or more different senses. In analyzing a statutory text, the court must avoid interpreting words in isolation. “[BJecause words can have alternative meanings depending on context, we interpret statutes, not by viewing individual words in isolation, but rather by reading the relevant statutory provisions as a whole.” This approach reflects the understanding that a provision that may seem ambiguous in isolation often becomes clear when considered against the statutory scheme or vice versa.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reswick v. Reswick (In Re Reswick)

3. “[I]n respect to any money or other thing of value payable by an employer to ... any representative of [its] employees, or to any officer or employee of a labor organization, who is also an employee or former employee of such employer, as compensation for, or by reason of, his service as an employee of such employer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 13 F. Supp. 3d 1044 - National Union of Healthcare Workers v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.