Jackson Transit Authority v. Local Division 1285, Amalgamated Transit Union’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 38 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 371 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), Briscoe v. W (1983)
141 federal appellate · 38 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedLocal Division 1285, Amalgamated Transit Union v. Jackson Transit Authority (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78C (§ 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 80B · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 45 U.S.C. § 184 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Cort v. Ash · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Maine v. Thiboutot · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.
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 371 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[labor] protective arrangements shall include, without being limited to, such provisions as may be necessary for ... the continuation of collective bargaining rights.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]o prevent federal funds from being used to destroy the collective-bargaining rights of organized workers.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress intended that the contracts be `creations of federal law' and that `the rights and duties contained in those contracts be federal in nature.'”
5 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.