Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
538 federal appellate · 122 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,255 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (1970), Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. O'Neill (1991)
538 federal appellate · 122 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Cited together with Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad · Chicago and North Western Railway Company v. United Transportation Union · Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers Express and Station Employees v. Florida East Coast Railway Company
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 1,255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service, the Mediation Board shall notify the President,”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven rough analogies [between the RLA and the NLRA] must be drawn circumspectly,”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`exercise of plenary state authority to curtail or entirely prohibit self-help ... frustrate effective implementation of the Act's processes[?]'”
10 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.