Gates v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005
2 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 29 U.S.C. § 402 · 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 412
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Sosna v. Iowa · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Brady v. United States · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in view of the reimbursement claim, notice to the class and an opportunity to `opt-out' must be provided in any event. That, as noted, is the only real practical difference between the two designations . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* With that in mind, it seems quite clear that a notice required under § 411(a)(3) is not”
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.