Robert A. Gibson v. At & T Technologies, Inc., a Corporation, F/k/a Western Electric Company, a Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 686 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably National Metalcrafters v. McNeil (1986), Wells v. General Motors Corp. (1989)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company · Oglesby v. RCA 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) VENUE, AMOUNT AND CITIZENSHIP. Suits for violations of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce as defined in this Act, or between any such labor organization, may be brought in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the amount in controversy or without regard to the citizenship of the parties.”
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.