No. 87-2658’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2001
3 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Weinberger v. Salfi · United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc. · Wyatt v. Interstate & Ocean Transport Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““wrote ‘that leaves us to the last item: whether the conduct of the employee was defensible and the discipline penalty just?’ The arbitrator concluded that Holcomb’s refusal to obey ‘a direct Company order when he had been informed of the consequences is insubordinate conduct subject to termination and is an appropriate penalty[.]’ ” 852 F.2d at 796 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As long as the arbitrator is even arguably construing or applying the contract”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“draws its essence from the collective bargaining agreement”
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.