Singer v. Flying Tiger Line Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 1349 · 1981
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Peterson v. Kennedy (1985), Dutrisac v. Caterpillar Tractor Co. (1983)
51 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 184 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Vaca v. Sipes · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as Mitchell requires, ... we shall treat suits against a union for a breach of the duty of fair representation and against an employer for a breach of a collective bargaining agreement under this [100-day, vacation of arbitral awards] ... limitations statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] critical factor is that the [new] rule ... is not one which might have been anticipated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Employees have no absolute right to have their eases taken to arbitration.... A union must only take those claims to arbitration which the union believes honestly and in good faith have merit. 652 F.2d at 1349 .”
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.