Sadlowski v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1993
4 federal appellate · 1 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. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 29 U.S.C. § 482 · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Trbovich v. United Mine Workers · Dunlop v. Bachowski · Calhoon v. Harvey · Wirtz v. Local 153 Glass Bottle Blowers Association · Hodgson v. Local Union 6799, United Steelworkers
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In conducting an investigation and in deciding whether probable cause exists to institute suit, the Secretary is to serve the public interest and not the interests of any private party. Only after the Secretary has instituted suit does he assume a partisan role and become an advocate for the complaining union member. See Trbovich v. United Mine Workers, 404 U.S. 528, 539 , [ 92 S.Ct. 630 , 30 L.Ed.2d 686 ] (1972). This stage was never reached in this case. As a result, plaintiffs cannot seek judicial relief based on the Secretary’s alleged violation of a nonexistent duty. Id. at 865. (footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Marshall“First, union members must exhaust internal union remedies. Then they must file a complaint with the Secretary of Labor. Section 402(a), 29 U.S.C. § 482(a). Finally, if the Secretary of Labor “finds probable cause to believe that a violation ... has occurred ... he shall ... bring a civil action ...” Section 402(b), 29 U.S.C. § 482 (b).”
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.