Bell Aerospace Co. Division of Textron, Inc. v. Local 516, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.2d 921 · 1974
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Bobker (1986), O & G/O'Connell Joint Venture v. Chase Family Ltd. Partnership No. 3 (1987)
61 federal appellate · 9 district · 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Transportation-Communication Employees Union v. Union Pacific Railroad · Saxis Steamship Co., Owners of the Ss Warm Springs v. Multifacs International Traders, Inc. v. American Renaissance Lines, Inc., Petitioner-Intervenor-Appellant · Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council v. General Electric Co.
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Where the award was procured by corruption, fraud, or undue means. (b) Where there was evident partiality or corruption in the arbitrators . . . (c) Where the arbitrators were guilty of misconduct in refusing to postpone the hearing . or . hear evidence . (d) Where the arbitrators exceeded their powers, or so imperfectly executed them that a mutual, final, and definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In handling evidence an arbitrator need not follow all the niceties observed by the federal courts. He need only grant the parties a fundamentally fair hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]onstruing ambiguous provisions of an arbitration award is the proper province of the arbitrator, not the courts”
1 later decision 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.