Stanton v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 833 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Graf v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. (1983), Dutrisac v. Caterpillar Tractor Co. (1983)
17 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Vaca v. Sipes · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he union is liable to Stanton, not for damages caused by Delta’s acts, but, rather, only for any increase in those damages brought about by its own.failure to give adequate advice to Stanton about processing his grievance. Vaca v. Sipes, 386 U.S. 171, 197-98 , 87 S.Ct. 903, 920-21 , 17 L.Ed.2d 842 . These additional damages — apparently consisting of additional legal costs — were incurred (by Stanton or by his lawyer) whether or not Stanton won on the merits of his grievance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily, courts do not even have jurisdiction over the merits of any employment dispute subject to determination by a system board of adjustment ... There is, of course, an exception allowing a court jurisdiction to determine whether a union has represented the employee properly ... But, given the strong proarbitration policies of the Railway Labor Act, this exception must be interpreted narrowly. Thus, the burden rests on those opposed to arbitration as a remedy to demonstrate why it is unsuitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The policy favoring arbitration extends with particular force to arbitration by system boards of adjustment[, which]... are created by the Railway Labor Act for the resolution of disputes between an air carrier and its employees [and] are the mandatory, exclusive and comprehensive system for resolving grievance disputes.”
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.