Transport Workers Union of America v. American Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 746 · 1969
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1988
5 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 · 45 U.S.C. § 153 · 45 U.S.C. § 184
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Glover v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The futility of the contractual or administrative remedy must clearly appear beyond mere conclusionary language in a complaint, for otherwise the doctrine of exhaustion would be dissipated by mere form and the door to the courts could be opened by prediction rather than by jurisdictional fact.””
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.