Shimman v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 80 · 1980
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Berger v. Iron Workers Reinforced Rodmen Local 201 (1988), Shimman v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 18 (1984)
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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. § 106 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 412 · 29 U.S.C. § 501 · 29 U.S.C. § 530 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Montana v. United States · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Rizzo v. Goode
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person whose rights secured by the provisions of this subchapter have been infringed by any violation of this subchapter may bring a civil action in a district court of the United States for such relief (including injunctions) as may be appropriate. Any such action against a labor organization shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the district where the alleged violation occurred, or where the principal office of such labor organization is located.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What should matter is not so much the International's theoretical control over the local as the nature and extent of actual control.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unions, like corporations and other artificial entities, can act only through their agents”
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.