International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Acosta v. Pacific Enterprises (1991), Wolfson v. Brammer (2010)
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 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
reviewedBrown v. Lowen (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 481
Relies on Russello v. United States · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Moore v. Ogilvie · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“comply with all reasonable requests of any candidate to distribute by mail or otherwise at the candidate's expense campaign literature in aid of such person's candidacy.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition yet evading review”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the Union's rule would again present an obstacle to a preconvention mailing by [the same] respondent”
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.