Stone v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2006
15 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. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Queen Mary Restaurants Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Oliver v. City of Tulsa · In Re Supreme Court Adjudication of Sufficiency of Initiative Petition in Tulsa · Fraser & Johnston Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the private employee who, when confronted with an impasse in negotiations or with an unfair labor practice committed during negotiations, has the option to strike, the firefighter or policeman is denied this option. In partial compensation for the denial of the traditional economic (weapons of labor, the Firefighter’s and I Policemen’s Arbitration Law provides a (method of arbitration for issues unresolved (by negotiation. To allow a municipal em(ployer to force negotiations to an impasse (by insistence on a proposal of, at best, (questionable legal tenability, resulting in a (process of arbitration, which is then not (binding on the municipal authority would (be to deny the right to engage in effective ¡collective bargaining reserved to these public employees by 11 O.S.1981, Sec. 51-101(A). This strong policy of requiring [absolute good faith in bargaining is necessary to counter-balance the absence of the the right to strike and the absence of availability of binding arbitration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The imposition of the highest standard of good faith on the part of the representatives of the municipal employer is consistent with the purposes of the Firefighters and Policemen Arbitration Law... . This strong policy of requiring absolute good faith in bargaining is necessary to counter-balance the absence of the right to strike and the absence of the availability of binding arbitration. The duty to bargain in good faith is a mandatory duty."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.