Ramsey v. United Mine Workers’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 12 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975), Group Life & Health Insurance v. Royal Drug Co. (1979)
119 federal appellate · 12 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRamsey v. United Mine Workers of America (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 106 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · United Mine Workers v. Pennington · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear proof of [a union's] actual participation in, or actual authorization of, such [unlawful] acts, or of ratification of such acts after actual knowledge thereof.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by agreement with one set of employers, insists on maintaining in other bargaining units specified wage standards ruinous to the business of those employers”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the simple concern of Congress was that unions had been found liable for violence and other illegal acts occurring in labor disputes which they had never authorized or ratified and for which they should not be held responsible. Congress discerned a tendency in courts to blame unions for everything occuring during a strike.”
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.