Head v. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees’s Empirical Analysis
512 F.2d 398 · 1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably Stelling v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 1547 (1978), Local No United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (1990)
9 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
Relies on Eisenstadt v. Baker · Thaggard v. United States · Gurton v. Arons · Frank Sabolsky v. Michael Budzanoski Appeal of Louis A. Antal · Johnson v. Nelson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies to fiduciary responsibility with respect to the money and property of the union and that it is not a catch-all provision under which union officials can be sued on any ground of misconduct with which the plaintiffs choose to charge them. 339 F.2d at 375 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because it centered on improper voting procedures and not on the present mishandling of union funds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guzman v. Bevona · Guzman v. Bevona“[I]t is clear that § 501 does not provide for an action against a labor organization....”
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.