de la Rosa Sanchez v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 29 · 1978
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Jackson v. Consolidated Rail Corp. (1983), Lewy v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (1986)
35 federal appellate · 5 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 Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · International Association of Machinists v. Central Airlines Inc · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]othing in this subchapter shall be construed to alter, amend, modify, invalidate, impair, or supersede any law of the United States ... or any rule or regulation issued under any such law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a tort action for malicious deprivation of benefits accrued under the collective bargaining agreement”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurisdiction over the merits of any employment dispute subject to determination by a system board of adjustment. Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., 406 U.S. 320 (92 S.Ct. 1562, 32 L.Ed.2d 95) (1972).”
2 later decisions 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.