Bechtel Construction, Inc. v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 1220 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Boldt v. Crake (1991), Towers v. United States (1995)
29 federal appellate · 1 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. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Legislative enactments should never be construed as establishing statutory schemes that are illogical, unjust, or capricious.”
6 later decisions 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.