Rea Express, Inc. v. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 226 · 1972
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Magnuson v. Burlington Northern, Inc. (1978), Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Lodge 16 v. Burlington Northern Railroad (1986)
23 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 155 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 156 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Difronzo v. United States · Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers Express and Station Employees v. Florida East Coast Railway 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he key word in this test is 'arguable.' If the court finds an arguable basis it must defer to the expertise of the Adjustment Board.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“awards are final in the absence of fraud or jurisdictional defects). Minor disputes are those disputes which concern the application or interpretation of existing collective bargaining contracts, while”
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.