Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Local of Newspaper Guild v. Washington Post Company’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 1029 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Shepherd v. American Broadcasting Companies (1995), Broderick v. Donaldson (2006)
20 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Schauffler ex rel. National Labor Relations Board v. Local 1291, International Longshoremen's Ass'n · V. T. A., Inc. v. Airco, Inc. · United States Steel Corp. v. United Mine Workers
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal, the petitioner must prove that the trial judge abused his discretion in refusing to order civil contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only discussed arbitration as it applied to the then pending employee discharge disputes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the same character that were factually before the court at that time.”
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.