Kaiser v. Local No. 83’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 642 · 1978
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Hayes v. New England Millwork Distributors, Inc. (1979), Criswell v. Western Airlines, Inc. (1983)
13 federal appellate · 3 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 Vaca v. Sipes · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci · Czosek v. O'MARA · Somerville v. Illinois
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither an employer nor a union is an indispensable party in an action against the other by an employee-union member when the action against the employer is based on a violation of the terms of the collective bargaining agreement and the action against the union is based on the statutory duty of fair representation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a federal obligation which has been judicially fashioned from national labor statutes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Vaca (Vaca v. Sipes, 386 U.S. 171 , 87 S.Ct. 903, 17 L.Ed.2d 842 (1967)) and Czosek v. O'Mara, 397 U.S. 25 , 90 S.Ct. 770, 25 L.Ed.2d 21 (1970) the Supreme Court has made clear that an employee's action against his union for violation of the Statutory duty of fair representation is separate and distinct from the contractual duty of an employer both as to the origin of the liability and the amount of damages.”
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.