Florida Power Corporation v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers System Council U-8 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 680 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2022
7 federal appellate · 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc. · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · W. R. Grace & Co. v. Local Union 759, International Union of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the arbitrator's construction which was bargained for; and so far as the arbitrator's decision concerns construction of the contract, the courts have no business overruling him because their interpretation of the contract is different from his.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an arbitrator is confined to interpretation and application of the collective bargaining agreement.... When the arbitrator's words manifest an infidelity to this obligation, courts have no choice but to refuse enforcement of the award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Perhaps the single most significant and common issue to which this deference extends is the issue of what constitutes sufficient and reasonable cause for discharge.”
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.