Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
455 federal appellate · 133 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,063 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. v. Norris (1994), Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. (1989)
455 federal appellate · 133 district · 22 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
reviewedDetroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 155 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 156 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 160 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Katz · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · Texas Co v. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Cited together with Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · 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 1,063 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those actual, objective working conditions and practices, broadly conceived, which were in effect prior to the time the pending dispute arose and which are involved in or related to that dispute.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rather elaborate machinery for negotiation, mediation, voluntary arbitration, and conciliation,”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the status quo extends to those actual, objective working conditions out of which the dispute arose, and clearly these conditions need not be covered in an existing agreement.”
24 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.