Ashley Drew Northern Railway Company v. United Transportation Union and Its Affiliated Local No 1121’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 1357 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Burlington Northern Railroad v. Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (1987), American Can Company v. Mansukhani M (1984)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Roe v. Wade · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“furthe[r] the union's economic interest in a labor dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is impermissible to follow a literal reading that engenders absurd consequences where there is an alternative interpretation that reasonably effects the statute's purpose”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] case shall be held to involve or to grow out of a labor dispute when the case involves persons who are engaged in the same industry. . . .”
2 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.