Chambers v. Local Union No. 639’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There cannot be any justification to make the public processes wait until the union member exhausts internal procedures plainly inadequate to deal with all phases of the complex problem concerning employer, union, and employee member. If the member becomes exhausted, instead of the remedies, the issues of public policy are never reached and an airing of the grievance never had.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bise v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1969

2. ““(4) Protection of the right to sue. No labor organization shall limit the right of any member thereof to institute an action in any court, or in a proceeding before any administrative agency, irrespective of whether or not the labor organization or its officers are named as defendants or respondents in such action or proceeding----””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Sadlowski v. United Steelworkers of America

3. “[i]t has, indeed, been asserted by both courts and commentators that the exceptions that have been read into the rule that a member must exhaust his intra-union remedies before suing his union have ‘almost entirely swallowed up the rule itself.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 574 F. Supp. 291 - Warner v. McLean Trucking Co.