No. 84-2744’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Milne Employees Association v. Sun Carriers, Inc. (1992), Stevens v. Moore Business Forms, Inc. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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 Vaca v. Sipes · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company · Humphrey v. Moore
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all cases in which we found a breach of the duty of fair representation based on a union's arbitrary conduct, it is clear that the union failed to perform a procedural or ministerial act, that the act in question did not require the exercise of judgment and that there was no rational and proper basis for the union's conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[w]e reasoned that a state claim for wrongful termination poses no significant threat to the collective bargaining process where it furthers a state interest in protecting the general public which transcends the employment relationship. (Emphasis supplied.)” Evangelista, 777 F.2d at 1401.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brinkman v. State“held that individual union members are immune from suits for damages under section 301 even if their conduct was unauthorized by the union and was in violation of an existing collective bargaining agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 88-15365
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.