Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co. v. Newspaper Guild of Wilkes-Barre’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 372 · 1981
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Carpenters Local Union No of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. Pratt-Farnsworth Inc (1982), Brenner v. Local United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (1991)
46 federal appellate · 11 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce as defined in this chapter, or between any such labor organization, may be brought in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the amount in controversy or without regard to the citizenship of the parties. 29 U.S.C. § 185 (a).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“.. . the law of the circuit as to the meaning of section 301(a) is that it reaches not only suits on labor contracts, but suits seeking remedies for violation of such contracts. That interpretation is consistent with the explicit direction of the Supreme Court that section 301 should not be read narrowly [citations omitted; emphasis in original]. Wilkes-Barre, id. at 380 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he label attached to the remedy as tort or contract is not dispositive of the scope of federal common law which under section 301(a) it is our responsibility to create,”
3 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.