Columbia Local, American Postal Workers Union v. Bolger’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 615 · 1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Podobnik v. United States Postal Service (2005), Independent Oil and Chemical Workers of Quincy Inc v. Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company (1988)
12 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
Relies on Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 · Buffalo Forge Co. v. United Steelworkers · Lever Bros. v. International Chemical Workers Union, Local 217 · Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 1384 v. Greyhound Lines, Inc. · Mathews v. Rheynard
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“restore the status quo ante in an acceptable form were that conduct found to be violative of contract rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessary to protect the arbitral process itself,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“render the arbitral process a hollow formality,”
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.