Busch v. Givens’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 978 · 1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2005
6 federal appellate · 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 Local 357, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers v. National Labor Relations Board · International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers v. Hardeman · Cox v. United States · Stelling v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 1547 · Don Vestal v. James R. Hoffa, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Etc. v. Don Vestal
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“11 Having been supplied no other basis, we must conclude that the district court interpreted the placement in Article XVI of the referendum step after the meeting and vote step as a requirement that they must occur in that order. Nothing in Local's Constitution or of record here, however, would so indicate. A requirement that amendment steps be performed in the order listed should not, without more, be engrafted upon Local's Constitution by court order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Busch v. Givens“union officials have offered a reasonable construction of the constitution, and no bad faith on their part has been shown, the courts should not disturb the union officials' interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a required order of performance they would have experienced no difficulty in finding suitable connective phrases, such as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Busch v. Givens
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.