Airlines Stewards & Stewardesses Ass'n v. Caribbean Atlantic Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 289 · 1969
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Magnuson v. Burlington Northern, Inc. (1978), Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Lodge 16 v. Burlington Northern Railroad (1986)
29 federal appellate · 5 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 Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad · International Association of Machinists v. Central Airlines Inc · United Industrial Workers Of The Seafarers International Union Of North America v. Board Of Trustees Of The Galveston Wharves · Southern Railway Co. v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“railroad asserts a defense based on the terms of the existing collective bargaining agreement, the controversy may not be termed a 'major' dispute unless the claimed defense is so obviously insubstantial as to warrant the inference that it is raised with intent to circumvent the procedures prescribed by Sec. 6 for alteration of existing agreements.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the arbitration machinery mandated by the Railway Labor Act (would) be dealt a crippling blow.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carbone v. Meserve“, there must be a showing that the company’s defense constitutes a”
1 later decision 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.