Chicago and North Western Railway Company v. United Transportation Union’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
313 federal appellate · 84 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 722 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Buffalo Forge Co. v. United Steelworkers (1976), First National Maintenance Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1981)
313 federal appellate · 84 district · 8 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
reviewedChicago & North Western Railway Co. v. United Transportation Union (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 108 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 155 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 156 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40
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 722 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enforceable by whatever appropriate means might be developed on a case-by-case basis.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be the duty of all carriers, their officers, agents, and employees to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning rates of pay, rules, and working conditions, and to settle all disputes, whether arising out of the application of such agreements or otherwise, in order to avoid any interruption to commerce or to the operation of any carrier growing out of any dispute between the carrier and the employees thereof.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements”
12 later decisions 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.