Theodus v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 1380 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
5 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 481 · 29 U.S.C. § 482 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The method of election used to elect officers of GO-769 is consistent with the requirement of Section 401(d) of the LMRDA that intermediate body officers be elected “by secret ballot among members in good standing or by labor organization officers representative of such members who have been elected by secret ballot.” The Department’s interpretative regulations recognize that “[tjhe phrase ‘officers representative of such members’ includes delegates who have been elected by secret ballot to represent labor organizations in intermediate bodies. Such delegates may therefore participate in the election of officers characterized as officers of the labor organization they represent.” 20 C.F.R. § 452.123 . Similarly, 29 C.F.R. § 452.124 expressly recognizes that the chairperson of a local committee that is not itself a labor organization may vote for officers of an intermediate labor organization, if he or she has been elected by secret ballot vote. See also 29 C.F.R. § 452.22 (delegates who elect intermediate body officers must be elected by secret ballot, even if they are not “officers” of the labor organization) and 29 C.F.R. § 452.27 (officers of an intermediate body may be elected by person acting in a representative capacity who have been elected by secret ballot). Although Section 401(a) of the LMRDA, 29 U.S.C. § 481 (a), states that International and National officers may be elected by “delegates chosen by secret ballot” and 401(d) states that intermediate body officers may”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a pure question of statutory interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent[ ] on the precise question at issue.”
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.