Local P-171 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America v. Thompson Farms Company Plank’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 1065 · 1981
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Baldwin County Welcome Center v. Brown (1984), Gillis v. United States Department of Health & Human Services (1985)
73 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Catlin v. United States · Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. MacKey · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Judgment Upon Multiple Claims or Involving Multiple parties. When more than one claim for relief is presented in an action, ... or when multiple parties are involved, the court may direct the entry of a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties only upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]ismissal of the appeal due to the belated certification would be 'empty paper shuffling' because the same papers would likely be before the court in a matter of months after appellants went through 'the empty formality of obtaining another certification and filing another notice of appeal.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'claims cannot be separate unless separate recovery is possible on each.... Hence, mere variations of legal theory do not constitute separate claims .'”
4 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.