Sinclair Oil Corp. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.2d 49 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Peterson v. Kennedy (1985), Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Reis (1981)
13 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress was well aware of the problems involved in reaching and enforcing no-strike agreements, and we think that when Section 301 was enacted it had no intention of subjecting union members engaged in wildcat strikes to individual liability for damages. We conclude that the primary remedy of Sinclair is discharge or discipline of individual defendants.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fiscal ruin visited upon (union) members as a result of the 'Danbury Hatters' decision.”
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.