Hodgson v.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
133 federal appellate · 52 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 355 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Trbovich v. United Mine Workers (1972), Local No. 82, Furniture & Piano Moving, Furniture Store Drivers, Helpers, Warehousemen & Packers v. Crowley (1984)
133 federal appellate · 52 district · 1 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
reviewedGeorge P. Shultz, Secretary of Labor, Cross-Appellee v. Local Union 6799, United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio, Cross-Appellants (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 481 · 29 U.S.C. § 482
Relies on Wirtz v. Local 153 Glass Bottle Blowers Association · Johnson v. United States · Wirtz v. Local Union No. 125 · George P. Shultz, Secretary of Labor, Cross-Appellee v. Local Union 6799, United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio, Cross-Appellants
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 355 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any interpretation of the exhaustion requirement must reflect the needs of rank and file union members--those people the requirement is designed ultimately to serve.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“members should not be held to procedural niceties while seeking redress within their union.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“concern for the need to remedy abuses in union elections without departing needlessly from the longstanding congressional policy against unnecessary governmental interference with internal union affairs.”
6 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.