Maier v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2014
2 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 413 · 29 U.S.C. § 529 · 39 U.S.C. § 412
Relies on Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Hall v. Cole · Douglas v. Alabama · National Labor Relations Board v. Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America · New York v. Penn Central Transportation 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refer[ ] to punishment or adverse consequences that a union, operating through its own tribunal, can impose either by virtue of its own authority over its members or by virtue of its relationship with or influence over the actions of the employer or potential employers of its members.”
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.