Morris v. Werner-Continental, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
466 F.2d 1185 · 1972
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Deboles v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. (1977), Early v. Eastern Transfer (1983)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Bieski v. Eastern Automobile Forwarding 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . that so long as there is an absence of fraud or bad faith or demonstrated bias or collusion, the decision by the arbitrators . . . , is final and binding and courts are generally powerless to interfere.” See, also, Lewis v. Magna American Corp., 472 F.2d 560 (6th Cir. 1972).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the parties agree to contracts which [have] the explicit provision to the effect that questions of seniority shall be subject to grievance procedures, the courts will not only refrain from hearing appeals from the awards of such arbitration as may finally result in such grievance matters, but the courts will, by injunction, require the parties to proceed with the arbitration proceeding in the event either of them should decline to do so.”
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.