Schneider Moving & Storage Co. v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
161 federal appellate · 77 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 497 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers (1986), Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. (1985)
161 federal appellate · 77 district · 38 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
reviewedRobbins v. Schneider Moving & Storage Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1145 (§ 515 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Vaca v. Sipes · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox
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 497 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“further the national labor policy of peaceful resolution of labor disputes.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the employer has economic weapons at its disposal, they would serve little purpose in [such] disputes....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A union's statutory duty of fair representation traditionally runs only to members of its collective-bargaining unit, and is coextensive with its statutory authority to act as the exclusive representative for all the employees within the unit.”
4 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.