Manville Forest Products Corp. v. United Paperworkers International Union’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 72 · 1987
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Williams v. Cigna Financial Advisors Inc. (1999), Kelly Merk v. Jewel Food Stores Division Of Jewel Companies, Incorporated (1991)
25 federal appellate · 4 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. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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.
“it stems from fraud or partiality; ... it concerns a matter not subject to arbitration ...; ... it does not 'dra[w] its essence' from the contract; or ... it violates public policy”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the arbitrator attempted to dispense 'his own brand of industrial justice.' " Id. The Fifth Circuit rejected the company's argument. In short, Manville and the cases cited therein "clearly support using ... negotiating history to resolve ambiguities and gaps in written collective bargaining agreements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“draw[] its essence from the collective bargaining agreement,”
2 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.