International Union United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Uaw v. Yard-Man Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
716 F.2d 1476 · 1983
Citation profile
181 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 400 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Aka v. Washington Hospital Center (1998), Musto v. American General Corp. (1988)
181 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston
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 400 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intended meaning of even the most explicit language can, of course, only be understood in light of the context which gave rise to its inclusion.”
58 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contract for benefits which accrue upon achievement of retiree status, there is an inference that the parties likely intended those benefits to continue as long as the beneficiary remains a retiree.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“it is unlikely that [life and health insurance benefits], which are typically understood as a form of delayed compensation or reward for past services, would be left to the contingencies of future negotiations.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.