Bituminous Coal Operators' Association Inc v. International Union United Mine Workers of America Consolidation Coal Company’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2021
6 district · 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 Conley v. Gibson · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the likelihood that a federal court declaration will resolve the uncertainty of obligation which gave rise to the controversy; (2) the convenience of the parties; (3) the public interest in settlement of the uncertainty of obligation; and (4) the availability and relative convenience of other remedies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a case of actual controversy within its jurisdiction, ... any court of the United States, upon filing of an appropriate plead ing, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought. Any such declaration shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree and shall be reviewable as such.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“moot only if the action or inaction of which [the plaintiff] complains is entirely unlikely to recur, or if the [union's] obligations under the [new] contract are so different from those under the [old] agreement that the parties could derive no judgment preclusion benefit from an adjudication based on past conduct.”
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.