Order of Railway Conductors & Brakemen & Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Clinchfield Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
407 F.2d 985 · 1969
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably National Post Office Mailhandlers Watchmen Messengers and Group Leaders Division Laborers International Union of North America v. United States Postal Service F (1985), Island Creek Coal Sales Company v. City of Gainesville Florida (1984)
11 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · In Re the Arbitration Between Ilios Shipping & Trading Corp. & American Anthracite & Bituminous Coal Corp.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . (D)efects in proceedings prior to or during arbitration may be waived by a party's acquiescence in the arbitration with knowledge of the defect.”
4 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.