Riverton Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers of America’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.2d 1035 · 1972
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Kaiser Steel Corp. v. Mullins (1982), NLRB v. Pipefitters (1977)
27 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 187 (§ 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Mine Workers v. Pennington · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America · National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not regard the decisions of the [National Labor Relations] Board as controlling on us in damage actions under Section 303. International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union v. Juneau Spruce Corp., 342 U.S. 237 , 72 S.Ct. 235 , 96 L.Ed. 275 (1952); United Brick & Clay Workers v. Deena Artware, Inc., 198 F.2d 637 (6th Cir. 1952), cert. denied, 344 U.S. 897 , 73 S.Ct. 277 , 97 L.Ed. 694 (1952) , rehearing denied, 344 U.S. 919 , 73 S.Ct. 346 , 97 L.Ed. 708 (1953) ; NLRB v. Deena Artware, 198 F.2d 645 (6th Cir. 1952), cert. denied, 345 U.S. 906 , 73 S.Ct. 644 , 97 L.Ed. 1342 (1953); Old Dutch Farms, Inc. v. Milk Drivers, 281 F.Supp. 971 (E. D.N.Y.1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The eighty cent penalty clause was not directed at job security, because Riverton could comply therewith by closing its mines, discharging all of its employees, and filling its entire requirements with coal from other signatory mines. Furthermore, Riverton could purchase coal from a signatory mine supplier whose employees were operating under substandard wages and working conditions. The trouble is that the clauses in question here were not ‘addressed to the labor relations of the contracting employer [Riverton] vis-a-vis his own employees’, but on the contrary, to the boycotted employers (non-signatory suppliers).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to reverse the action of the Local Union.”
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.