Skidmore v. Consolidated Rail Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
619 F.2d 157 · 1979
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1985), Radin v. United States (1983)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 45 U.S.C. § 153
Relies on Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Atlas Roofing Company Inc v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Irey · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · Wicks v. Southern Pacific Co. · Brotherhood of Railway Airline and Steamship Clerks v. Kansas City Terminal Railway Company
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The Board failed to comply with the requirements of the Railway Labor Act. 2. The Board’s decision failed to conform or confine itself to matters within the scope of the [Board’s] jurisdiction. 3. The decision was the product of fraud or corruption.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“functions solely as an impartial adjudicatory tribunal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“First, we are not persuaded that the NRAB did misinterpret the labor agreement. . . . Second, if we were so persuaded, we could still only grant relief on the specious theory that the NRAB is without jurisdiction to make mistakes, with its corollary that in spite of the limiting language of § 153 First (q) a party is entitled to a virtually de novo review whenever he asserts error by the NRAB.... Like any other adjudicatory body, the NRAB is not perfect, and will make mistakes from time to time. Under appellant’s expansive notion of what to count as a jurisdictional defect in an NRAB action, the district court would have ongoing authority to remedy all of these errors. But our power is circumscribed sharply by the clear congressional plan under which NRAB decisions may not easily be set aside by the courts. Thus even if we thought the NRAB had erred in this case (which we do not), we could not overturn its decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.