Helmer v. Briody’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2013
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. § 402 · 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 529
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Vaca v. Sipes · United States v. Swift & Co. · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright · S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Johnson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A breach of the statutory duty of fair representation occurs only when a union’s conduct toward a member of the collective bargaining unit is arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.... [A] union may not arbitrarily ignore a meritorious grievance or process it in a perfunctory fashion....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helmer v. Briody“cannot intercede on behalf of employees who may be prejudiced by a rationally founded decision [that] operates to their disadvantage.”
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.