Cappa v. Wiseman’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 957 · 1981
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Alaelua v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1995), Operating Engineers Pension Trust v. Beck Engineering & Surveying Co. (1984)
28 federal appellate ·
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. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Santoni v. United States · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Lerwill v. Inflight Motion Pictures Inc · Local No. 3-193 International Woodworkers v. Ketchikan Pulp Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant could bring this section 301 action in district court since he was seeking to recover wages to which he claimed he was entitled under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce . . . , or between any such labor organizations, may be brought in any district court of the United States . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ongress did not intend by enacting Section 301 to vest in the courts initial authority to consider and pass upon questions of representation and determination of appropriate bargaining units.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 90-16495 · Cappa v. Wiseman
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.