National Post Office Mailhandlers Watchmen Messengers and Group Leaders Division Laborers International Union of North America v. United States Postal Service F’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 834 · 1985
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Black v. Ryder/pie Nationwide Inc (1994), Hoteles Condado Beach, La Concha & Convention Center v. Union De Tronquistas Local 901 (1985)
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 39 U.S.C. § 1001 · 39 U.S.C. § 1208 · 9 U.S.C. § 10 (Federal Arbitration Act) · 9 U.S.C. § 11 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Hamling v. United States · Wilko v. Swan · W. R. Grace & Co. v. Local Union 759, International Union of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'exceeded [his] powers or so imperfectly executed them' that vacation”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““the question of interpretation of the collective bargaining agreement is a question for the arbitrator. It is the arbitrator’s construction which was bargained for; and so far as the arbitrator’s decision concerns construction of the contract, the courts have no business overruling him because their interpretation of the contract is different from his.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Arbitrators are not bound by formal rules of procedure and evidence, and the standard for judicial review of arbitration procedures is merely whether a party to arbitration has been denied a fundamentally fair hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.