Fizer v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 182 · 1978
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Clayton v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, & Agricultural Implement Workers (1981), Fallick v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (1998)
20 federal appellate · 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Glover v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Noyd v. Bond · Emporium Capwell Co. v. Western Addition Community Organization
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff's claims in this case, however, do not approach the 'clear and positive showing of futility' which we have stated need be made.”
4 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.