Sosbe v. Delco Electronics Division of General Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
830 F.2d 83 · 1987
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Lucas v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph (1990), 106 Md. App. 578 - Pope v. Board of School Commissioners (1995)
26 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Clayton v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, & Agricultural Implement Workers · Bartman v. Allis-Chalmers 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a plaintiff could indefinitely delay resolution of labor disputes by merely bombarding his union with tiresome requests'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Fjirst, whether union officials are so hostile to the employee that he could not hope to obtain a fair hearing on his claim; second, whether the internal union appeals procedures would be inadequate either to reactivate the employee’s grievance or to award him the full relief he seeks under § 301; and third, whether the exhaustion of internal procedures would unreasonably delay the employee’s opportunity to obtain a judicial hearing on the merits of his claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o establish the degree of hostility that would excuse a union member from the ordinary duty to exhaust internal remedies, the member must establish futility at every step of the relevant grievance procedure. 830 F.2d at 86 .”
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.