Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Unbelievable, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (1997), City of Fostoria v. Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Ass'n (2005)
1 district · 2 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Patterson 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a claim accrues when an employee discovers, or should have discovered with exercise of due diligence, acts giving rise to the cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he essential inquiry under an alter ego analysis is “whether there was a bona fide discontinuance and a true change of ownership ... or merely a disguised continuance of the old employer.” ... This essential inquiry does not require [a] finding] that. an employer intended to evade labor obligations ... in order to impose alter ego status. Instead, in deciding whether a successor corporation is really the predecessor corporation by another name merely requires an examination of all the circumstances of the case, and a weighing of all the relevant factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n Section 301 cases, the damages arising from a union’s breach of its duty of fair representation include the attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred in pursuing a claim against the employer for breach of the collective bargaining agreement.”
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.