John Sertic v. Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga And Ashtabula Counties Carpenters District Council Of The United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners Of America, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
423 F.2d 515 · 1970
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Bunz v. Moving Picture Machine Operators' Protective Union Local 224 (1977), Blanchard v. Johnson (1976)
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 American Federation of Musicians v. Wittstein · Navarro v. Gannon · Local No. 2, International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers v. International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers · Lewis v. Commissioners of Bourbon 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(3) Dues, initiation fees, and assessments. — Except in the case of a federation of national or international labor organizations, the rates of dues and initiation fees payable by members of any labor organization in effect on September 14, 1959 shall not be increased, and no general or special assessment shall be levied upon such members, except— “(A) in the case of a local labor organization, (i) by majority vote by secret ballot of the members in good standing voting at a general or special membership meeting, after reasonable notice of the intention to vote upon such question, or (ii) by majority vote of the members in good standing voting in a membership referendum conducted by secret ballot; or “(B) in the case of a labor organization, other than a local labor organization or a federation of national or international labor organizations, (i) by majority vote of the delegates voting at a regular convention, or at a special convention of such labor organization held upon not less than thirty days’ written notice to the principal office of each local or constituent labor organization entitled to such notice, or (ii) by majority vote of the members in good standing of such labor organization voting in a membership referendum conducted by secret ballot, or (iii) by majority vote of the members of the executive board or similar governing body of such labor organization, pursuant to express authority contained in the constitution and by laws of such labor organization: Provid”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(u)nion members are entitled under the Act to the right of a meaningful vote . . ..”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The pervading premise of both these titles (Title I and Title IV, Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) is that there should be full and active participation by the rank and file in the affairs of the union.”
2 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.