International Association Of Machinists And Aerospace Workers, District Lodge No. 19, v. Soo Line Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably In re Bieter Co. (1994), Hosna v. Groose (1996)
13 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
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Abuse of discretion occurs if the district court rests its conclusion on clearly erroneous factual findings or if its decision relies on erroneous legal conclusions.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ernest Smith Jimmy Rudd v. Arkansas Department of Correction A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Larry Norris, Acting Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Willis H. Sargent, Warden of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction A.J. Hall, Major, Chief of Security R.R. Wood, Lieutenant, Shift Supervisor J. Cleveland, Guard John Hood, Officer James Banks, Classification and Assignment Officer, Ron Smyers, Medical Services Administrator John Does, I-X, Dale Reed, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Linda C. Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of John E. Stewart v. Arkansas Department of Correction A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Larry Norris, Acting Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Willis H. Sargent, Warden of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction A.J. Hall, Major, Chief of Security R.R. Wood, Lieutenant, Shift Supervisor J. Cleveland, Guard John Hood, Officer, James Banks, Classification and Assignment Officer Ron Smyers, Medical Services Administrator John Does, I-X · 172 F. Supp. 2d 1155 - Murray v. SOLIDARITY OF LABOR ORGAN. INTERN. BEN.“carrier may apply its reasonable interpretation of the disputed agreement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the parties disagree whether the dispute can be resolved by reference to an agreement, the dispute is minor unless the claims of contractual justification are 'frivolous' or 'obviously insubstantial.'”
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.