Republic Steel Corporation, in No. 77-1350 v. United Mine Workers of America, United Mine Workers of America, District No. 5, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 9873, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 688, Gerald Abbott, Theodore Spazok, Peter Trbovich, Nick Paskovich, and Robert Famularo. Republic Steel Corporation, in No. 77-2037 v. United Mine Workers of America, United Mine Workers of America, District No. 5, United Mine Workers of America, Sub-District No. 3, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 9873, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 688, Gerald Abbott, Theodore Spazok, Peter Trbovich, Nick Paskovich, Robert Famularo, John Doe, and Richard Roe. Appeal of International Union, United Mine Workers of America, in No. 77-2038’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 467 · 1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably Carbon Fuel Company v. United Mine Workers of America (1979), Peterson v. Kennedy (1985)
17 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce as defined in this chapter may be brought in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the amount in controversy or without regard to the citizenship of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is not to suggest, however, that a different result might not be forthcoming upon proper allegations and proof that the districts, sub-districts, and locals had discrete obligations under the collective bargaining agreement, custom, and/or the provisions of the constitutions and by-laws of the several unions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 78-1395“Republic should . . . be required to prove that the dispute (the UMW Local 6290) pickets had with Their employer or employers was one that was subject to the grievance and arbitration clause contained in the (1974) Agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 78-1395
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.