Airline Maintenance Lodge 702, International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. Loudermilk’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.2d 719 · 1971
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably Sewell v. Grand Lodge of the International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (1971), Ballas v. McKiernan (1974)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · Scofield v. National Labor Relations Board · Salzhandler v. Caputo · Grand Lodge of International Ass'n of Machinists v. King
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When local officers encourage local members to break away from the national organization and form an independent union, it clearly undermines the responsibility of local members to the national organization, and threatens the enforcement of contractual obligations. Therefore, the advocation of dual unionism is not protected....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rights of the union member under this statute must be balanced against the right preserved to the union to make rules as to the responsibility of the member toward the union as an institution, and this balancing process must rest on the facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adopt and enforce reasonable rules as to the responsibility of every member toward the organization as an institution and to his refraining from conduct that would interfere with its performance of its legal or contractual obligations.”
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.