Charles H. Ruby, as President of the Air Line Pilots Association, International v. Taca International Airlines, S. A.’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 1359 · 1971
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2005 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. (1989), Frank Landry v. Air Line Pilots Association International Afl-Cio, Taca Airlines, S.A. And Charles J. Huttinger (1990)
21 federal appellate · 7 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 United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union · United States v. Aluminum Co. of America · Walling US v. Helmerich & Payne
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the carrier would use the runaway shop technique to defeat the pilots' collective bargaining gains.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For a capsule summary of the history and legal import of the “major” — “minor” distinction under the Railway Labor Act, see Seaboard World Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union, 2 Cir., 1970, 425 F.2d 1086, 1089-1090 . A more exhaustive treatment will be found in Harper, Major Disputes Under the Railway Labor Act, 35 J. Airlines & Com. 3 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably be read to authorize a full-scale unilateral transfer, with the attendant consequences for [the union] and the agreement as a whole.”
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.