Highway & City Freight Drivers, Dockmen & Helpers, Local Union No. 600 v. Gordon Transports, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 1285 · 1978
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Nugget Hydroelectric Lp v. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (1992), Hawaiian Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of State of Hawaii (1987)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · United States v. White · Ingraham v. Wright
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 1(8) uses the word ‘includes’ when setting out the types of organizations that come within the definition rather than the word ‘means.’ When a statute is phrased in this manner, the fact that the statute does not specifically mention a particular entity (in this case labor unions) does not imply that the entity falls outside of the definition.” (footnote omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The approach is now similar to that of the Federal Income tax provisions, under which syndicates, associations, and enterprises having all the essential attributes of corporation are treated as if they were corporations, otherwise, as partnerships.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Cohen“are, as has been abundantly shown, associations existing under the laws of the United States, of the Territories thereof, and of the States of the Union.”
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.