Gavin v. Structural Iron Workers Local No. 1’s Empirical Analysis
553 F.2d 28 · 1977
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Cedillo v. Int'l Ass'n of Bridge & Structural Iron Workers, Local Union No. 1 (1979), In Re Ben Carter
9 federal appellate · 4 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 Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Moynahan v. Pari-Mutuel Employees Guild of California, Local 280 · Wood v. United States · Spiniello v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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.
“"Member" or "member in good standing", when used in reference to a labor organization, includes any person who has fulfilled the requirements for membership in such organization, and who neither has voluntarily withdrawn from membership nor has been expelled or suspended from membership after appropriate proceedings consistent with lawful provisions of the constitution and bylaws of such organization.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.