Mims v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
514 F.2d 106 · 1975
Citation profile
37 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Detroit Police Officers' Ass'n v. Young (1979), Walker v. Ford Motor Co. (1982)
37 federal appellate ·
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. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · Reamer v. Beall · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fixing of attorney's fee must be left to the discretion of the trial judge, but the failure below to state the premise for limiting the award gives us no basis to determine whether that discretion was properly exercised.”
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.