Barrett v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.2d 1311 · 1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2015
7 federal appellate · 1 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hen parties by their uniform conduct over a period of time have given a contract a particular construction, such construction will be adopted by 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.