Summit Valley Industries, Inc. v. Local 112, United Brotherhood of Carpenters’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 21 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 315 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. (1991), Marek v. Chesny (1985)
101 federal appellate · 21 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedThe Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America for and on Behalf of Its Member Boise Cascade Corporation v. The National Labor Relations Board, Summit Valley Industries, Inc. v. The National Labor Relations Board, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local Union 112, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board, and Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Intervenor (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 187 (§ 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Perrin v. United States · F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Vaughan v. Atkinson
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 315 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the American Rule[,] it is well established that attorney[s'] fees `are not ordinarily recoverable in the absence of a statute or enforceable contract providing therefor.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attorney's fees are necessary to achieve full compensation [for the PTO's involvement in a § 145 action], this justification alone is not sufficient to create an exception to the American Rule in the absence of express congressional authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“nothing more than a 'restate[ment] of one of the oft-repeated criticisms of the American Rule.'”
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.