708 F. Supp. 240 - Sixel v. Transportation Communications’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2009
5 district · 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. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Hishon v. King & Spalding · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A union whose alleged unfair representation arises solely out of inaction — such as failure to further a grievance — does not thereby commit an ongoing violation of its duty; the six month period commences when the union initially decides against action. [Metz v. Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc., 715 F.2d 299, 305-306 (7th Cir.1983); see also Adams v. Budd Co., 846 F.2d 428 (7th Cir.1988)].... This rule is consistent with the strong federal policy favoring prompt and final resolution of labor disputes. United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell, 451 U.S. 56, 63 , 101 S.Ct. 1559, 1564 , 67 L.Ed.2d 732 (1981); Metz, 715 F.2d at 304 .”
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.