Newell v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 1186 · 1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Dow v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America (1993), Local No United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (1990)
23 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. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 29 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Calhoon v. Harvey · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · Trammel v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we will not invalidate the International's interpretation of its own constitution unless it is 'patently unreasonable'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o member of any labor organization may be fined, suspended, expelled, or otherwise disciplined except for nonpayment of dues by such organization or by any officer thereof unless such member has been (A) served with written specific charges; (B) given a reasonable time to prepare his defense; (C) afforded a full and fair hearing.”
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.