Johnston Boiler Company v. Local Lodge No International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Builders Blacksmiths Forgers and Helpers’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 40 · 1985
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Adkins v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers (1985), Cement Divisions, National Gypsum Co. v. United Steelworkers of America (1986)
14 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Otey v. Nebraska · Hyman v. Rickman Et Al.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do hold that the presumption of authority that attaches to an arbitrator’s award applies with equal force to his decision that his award is within the submission.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because it is not unusual for an arbitrator to apply due process notions to just cause, the arbitrator derived his decision from the essence of the collective bargaining agreement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Considering the strong presumptions in favor of a party’s right to arbitration and the extent of an arbitrator’s authority, it would be a strange and grudging interpretation of [the] Steelworkers Trilogy to demand that arbitrators stay narrowly within the technical limits of the submission.... [T]he presumption of authority that attaches to an arbitrator’s award applies with equal force to his decision that his award is within the submission.”
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.