Lloyd Sheldon v. Thomas F. O'callaghan, as President’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 1276 · 1974
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably O'Callaghan v. Sheldon (1974), Rosario v. Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union, Local 10 (1979)
18 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Calhoon v. Harvey · National Labor Relations Board v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate · American Federation of Musicians v. Wittstein · Gurton v. Arons
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) (1) Equal rights. — Every member of a labor organization shall have equal rights and privileges within such organization to nominate candidates, to vote in elections or referendums of the labor organization, to attend membership meetings, and to participate in the deliberations and voting upon the business of such meetings, subject to reasonable rules and regulations in such organization’s constitution and bylaws.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The duly elected officers of a union have a right and a responsibility to lead, and to give the members the benefit of their advice on questions that arise.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case . . . the defendant union officials’ stiff-necked refusal even to provide their opponents access to the membership mailing list rendered the referendum procedure so patently unfair that their conduct can fairly be deemed “a denial of the [members] equal right to vote in elections or referendums,” 497 F.2d at 1283, n. 9 (emphasis added).”
2 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.