Burlington Northern Railroad v. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
202 federal appellate · 60 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 468 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Honig v. Doe (1988), Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp. (1990)
202 federal appellate · 60 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBurlington Northern Railroad v. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 113 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 52 (§ 20 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 160 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Sosna v. Iowa · Weinstein v. Bradford · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40
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 468 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning rates of pay, rules, and working conditions, and to settle all disputes ... in order to avoid any interruption to commerce or to the operation of any carrier growing out of any dispute between the carrier and the employees thereof.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Because [the] same parties are reasonably likely to find themselves again in dispute over the issues raised in [the petition for certiorari], and because such disputes typically are resolved quickly by executive or legislative action, this controversy is one that is capable of repetition yet evading review.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except in a strict conformity with the provisions of this chapter.”
6 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.