Kansas City Royals Baseball Corp. v. Major League Baseball Players Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 615 · 1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Mackey v. National Football League (1976), General Drivers, Helpers and Truck Terminal Employees, Local No. 120 v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1976)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
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.
“[t]he question of arbitrability is ... one of contract construction and is for the courts to decide.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) where the collective bargaining agreement contains an express provision clearly excluding the grievance involved from arbitration; or (2) where the agreement contains an ambiguous exclusionary provision and the record evinces the most forceful evidence of a purpose to exclude the grievance from arbitration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“draws its essence from the collective bargaining agreement.”
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.