Linder v. Berge’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 686 · 1984
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2004 · most notably Reed v. United Transportation Union (1989), Greenburg v. Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority (1987)
39 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 29 U.S.C. § 412 · 29 U.S.C. § 414 · 29 U.S.C. § 440 · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell · Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · Welyczko v. U.S. Air, Inc.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the two year period provided in the Railway Labor Act for suits challenging the decisions of the National Railroad Adjustment Board,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be governed by the same statute of limitations as governs the unfair representation claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the relatively rapid final resolution of labor disputes.”
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.