Teamsters Union Local v. Great Western Chemical Company’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 764 · 1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Ting v. United States (1991), McCreedy v. Local Union No. 971 UAW (1987)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 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 DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell · Singer v. Flying Tiger Line Inc. · Federation of Westinghouse Independent Salaried Unions v. Westinghouse Electric 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] long period of controversy and conflict can be a serious burden, both for the grievant and for the management, and can poison the relationship between the contracting parties that the contract was designed to establish and preserve,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assume the general rule of borrowing state statutes of limitation applies unless (1) a rule from federal law “clearly provides a closer analogy that available state statutes,” and (2) “the federal policies at stake and the practicalities of litigation make that [federal] rule a significantly more appropriate vehicle for interstitial lawmaking.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when it was made clear by the Employer to the Union that the Employer would not submit the matter to arbitration”
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.