Hodge v. Drivers, Salesmen, Warehousemen, Milk Processors, Cannery, Dairy Employees & Helpers' Local Union 695’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 961 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2009
8 federal appellate · 1 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. § 411
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Finnegan v. Leu · Trabert & Hoeffer, Inc. v. Piaget Watch Corp.
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.
“the ability of an elected union president to select his own administrators is an integral part of ensuring a union administration’s responsiveness to the mandate of the union election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[do] not restrict freedom of an elected union leader to choose a staff whose views are compatible with his own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Finnegan by its very terms is not limited to powerful decisionmakers but includes 'administrators' and 'staff.'”
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.