Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 54 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 348 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Leroy v. Great Western United Corp. (1979), Decker Coal Company v. Commonwealth Edison Company (1986)
84 federal appellate · 54 district · 47 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
reviewedBrotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 109 · 28 U.S.C. § 112 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1400 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co · American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Central Trades Council · United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & 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 348 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. . such a reading of § 1391(b) is inconsistent with the underlying purpose of the provision, for it would leave the venue decision entirely in the hands of plaintiffs, rather than making it “primarily a matter of convenience of litigants and witnesses.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)bsent some contrary indications by the Congress and absent any procedural prejudice to either party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t most nearly approximates the intent of Congress to recognize the reality of the multi-state, unincorporated association such as a labor union and to permit suit against that entity, like the analogous corporate entity, wherever it is ‘doing business.’ ” Id. at 562, 87 S.Ct. at 1750 .”
2 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.