Local 1251 International Union of United Automobile Workers v. Robertshaw Controls Co.’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 29 · 1968
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably International Union United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Uaw v. Yard-Man Incorporated (1983), Wightman v. Springfield Terminal Railway Co. (1996)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk · Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · Stoner v. California
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Seniority is wholly a creation of the collective agreement and does not exist apart from that agreement.””
5 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.