Nottelson v. Smith Steel Workers D.A.L.U. 19806’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 445 · 1981
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Brener v. Diagnostic Center Hospital (1982), Protos v. Volkswagen of America, Inc. (1986)
32 federal appellate · 4 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 Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Sherbert v. Verner
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled ... that Title VII rights cannot be bargained away and that a collective bargaining agreement therefore does not of itself provide a defense for Title VII violations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because a religious objector under a charity-substitute accommodation bears the same financial burden as his coworkers, he is not, as the [defendants suggest], a ‘free rider’ seeking something for nothing, and the diversion of his contribution to a charity rather than the Union does not of itself make the accommodation unfair or unreasonable as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Application of Section 7010) does not, as defendants contend, have a primary effect of advancing the interests of religionists over non-religionists or the beliefs of one sect over those of another.” ( 643 F.2d 445 , 454.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.