Salinas v. Milne Truck Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 568 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably Stevens v. Moore Business Forms, Inc. (1994), Dahnke v. Teamsters Local 695 (1990)
13 federal appellate · 3 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 · Peterson v. Kennedy · Dolphin Tours, Inc. v. Pacifico Creative Service, Inc. · Moore v. Bechtel Power 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ast grievance hearings had upheld the discharge of drivers without a warning for any prior incident. Local 63's reliance on precedent suggests that its conduct was not discriminatory or in bad faith.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff may prevail only if the union's conduct was discriminatory or in bad faith. Arbitrariness alone would not be enough.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case, the union may have rejected Salinas's interpretation ... as meritless. The union may have overlooked Salinas's interpretation ... entirely, or the union may have found Salinas's interpretation meritorious but failed to present the interpretation at the hearing.”
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.