Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 19 · 1969
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1985), United States v. Hitchmon (1979)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · Texas Co v. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks · Stevens v. Marks
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“district courts have no such authority where 'validity' of the contract depends upon the merits of a representation dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although a district court at times may have jurisdiction to enjoin unilateral changes in the status quo established by collective bargaining agreements, Texas & New Orleans R.R. v. Brotherhood of Ry. & Steamship Clerks, 1930, 281 U.S. 548 , 50 S.Ct. 427 , 74 L.Ed. 1034 , a merger by its very nature requires changes in the status quo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an asserted overlapping of the interests of the two crafts”
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.