Zemonick v. Consolidation Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 381 · 1985
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Mulligan v. Hazard (1985), Juzwin v. Asbestos Corp. (1990)
23 federal appellate · 3 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. § 160 (§ 10 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 · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp.
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.
“a new principle of law, either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied ... or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'[T]he importance of uniformity in limitations periods' in labor law which 'was a major consideration in the DelCostello opinion itself' favors retroactivity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“no reason ... to join the lonely position taken by the Ninth Circuit”
1 later decision 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.