Dement’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2011
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Vaca v. Sipes · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally speaking, ‘a cause of action for breach of the duty of fair representation accrues at the point where the grievance procedure has been exhausted or otherwise breaks down to the employee’s disadvantage. It is only as this point that the employee is cognizant of any alleged breach of the duty owed him by the union.’ Hayes v. Reynolds Metals Co., 769 F.2d 1520, 1522 (11th Cir.1985) (per curiam). The standard is an objective one; namely, when the plaintiff knew, or should have known through the exercise of due diligence that his claim had accrued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]or all purposes relevant to this [decision], the legal princi-pies governing the scope and nature of the of the statutory duty of fair representation are identical with respect to hybrid suits brought under the [Railway Labor Act and the Labor Management Relations Act (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.”
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.