Madden v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably Detroy v. American Guild of Variety Artists (1961), Morrissey v. National Maritime Union of America (1976)
39 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 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
Relies on Polin v. Kaplan · Martin v. Curran · People Ex Rel. Deverell v. Musical Mutual Protective Union · Wilcox v. Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum · 3 E.H. Smith 401 - People Ex Rel. Johnson v. New York Produce Exchange
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an association's decision on the merits must be upheld unless 'contrary to natural justice, purely arbitrary and one that no honest mind could adopt.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If there be any public policy touching the government of labor unions, and there can be no doubt that there is, it is that traditionally democratic means of improving their union may be freely availed of by members without fear of harm or penalty. And this necessarily includes the right to criticize current union leadership and, within the union, to oppose such leadership and its policies. See Polin v. Kaplan, 257 N.Y. 277, 284 , 177 N.E. 833, 835 , supra. The price of free expression and of political opposition within a union cannot be the risk of expulsion or other disciplinary action. In the final analysis, a labor union profits, as does any democratic body, more by pertaining free expression and free political oppostion than it may ever lose from any disunity that it may thus evidence.””
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.