Harper v. San Diego Transit Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 663 · 1985
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Galindo v. Stoody Co. (1986), Young v. Anthony's Fish Grottos, Inc. (1987)
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 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 · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether accrual occurs when the employee learns, or should have learned, that his dispute was finally resolved, ... or whether accrual occurs when the employee learns, or should have learned, that the union may have violated its duty of fair representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“recognized that wrongful termination in violation of state public policy (in that case, firing the employee for 'whistle blowing' about the employer's delivery of adulterated milk in violation of California state law) survives federal preemption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The agreement provides the same or greater protection of job security that state tort law seeks to provide for nonunionized employees; accordingly federal law preempts state law”
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.