Mack Trucks, Inc. v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 579 · 1988
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Railway Labor Executives Association v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Co, United States v. Bennett (2005)
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mack and the UAW ended the bargaining session with a 'handshake meeting,' congratulated each other on reaching a new agreement ... on May 3, 1987, an overwhelming majority of the affected UAW members voted to ratify the new agreement. Union ratification is generally considered to be 'the last act necessary ... to create a meeting of the minds and an enforceable agreement.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, a district court retains independent jurisdiction to decide a case properly brought under § 301, even if the claim may also constitute an unfair labor practice under the NLRA.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Adoption of an enforceable labor contract does not depend on the reduction to writing of the parties' intention to be bound.”
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.