Phillips v. Osborne’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.2d 826 · 1968
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Stelling v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 1547 (1978), Boelens v. Redman Homes Inc & Boelens (1984)
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 29 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Healy Nh v. Ratta · Gurton v. Arons · Johnson v. Nelson · Highway Truck Drivers & Helpers, Local 107 v. Cohen
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officer, agent, shop steward, or representative of any labor organization.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any relief obtained ... shall benefit the corporation as a whole and not the suing individual directly.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]tatutes extending federal jurisdiction, such as Section 501(b), are narrowly construed so as not to reach beyond the limits intended by Congress.”
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.