No. 84-7366’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2013
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Relies on United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Vaca v. Sipes · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a cause of action for breach of the duty of fair representation accrues at the point where the grievance procedure has been exhausted or otherwise breaks down to the employee's disadvantage. It is only at this point that the employee is cognizant of any alleged breach of the duty owed him by the union.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the merger of the seniority rosters became effective and certainly no later than plaintiff's termination[,]”
2 later decisions 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.