Doty v. Sewall’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 1 · 1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Reed v. United Transportation Union (1989), Davis v. United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers (1986)
23 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 482 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'does not affect any interpretation or effect any reinterpretation of a collective bargaining agreement.... There is no erosion of the finality of private settlements.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dissension within a union naturally affects that union's activities and effectiveness in the collective bargaining arena.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an analogous state statute with anywhere near the aptness and closeness of fit of the Massachusetts civil rights statute in this case.”
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.