Chauffeurs, Teamsters & Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
411 federal appellate · 217 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,485 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Mertens v. Hewitt Associates (1993)
411 federal appellate · 217 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedTerry v. Chauffeurs, Teamsters & Helpers, Local 391 (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Fay v. Noia · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover
Cited together with Tull v. United States · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · Curtis v. Loether · Vaca v. Sipes · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood
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 1,485 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, we compare the statutory action to 18th-century actions brought in the courts of England prior to the merger of the courts of law and equity. Second, we examine the remedy sought and determine whether it is legal or equitable in nature.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incidental to or intertwined with injunctive relief.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“form of relief offered in the courts of law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.