Barrett v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 132 · 1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1990
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Catlin v. United States · Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Switzerland Cheese Association Inc v. E Horne's Market Inc · Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“VEVRA simply requires that there be a reasonable certainty that the veteran would have enjoyed the status he claims but for his military service. This is the proper legal standard and the district court did not apply it. 29 The district court here, in denying relief on the merits, found neither a violation of VEVRA nor of the applicable collective bargaining agreements. The court stated: 30 This Court finds that under the VEVRA”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“who is inducted into the Armed Forces of the United States ... for training and service and who leaves a position (other than a temporary position) in the employ of any employer in order to perform [military] training and service”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trulson v. Trane Co.
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.