Nord v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 481 · 1936
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986 · most notably Whitehouse v. Illinois Central Railroad (1955), Washington Terminal Co. v. Boswell (1941)
25 federal appellate · 4 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. § 41 · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on William Truax v. Mike Raich · Glenwood Light Water Company v. Mutual Light Heat & Power Company · Hunt v. New York Cotton Exchange · Scott v. Donald · Ochoa v. Hernandez
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a carrier does not comply with an order of a division of the Adjustment Board within the time limit in such order, the petitioner, or any person for whose benefit such order was made, may file in the District Court of the United States for the district in which he resides or in which is located the principal operating office of the carrier, or through which the carrier operates, a petition setting forth briefly the causes for which he claims relief * * * Such suit in the District Court of the United States shall proceed in all respects as other civil suits, except that on the trial of such suit the findings and order of the division of the Adjustment Board shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right to earn a livelihood and to continue in employment unmolested by efforts to enforce void enactments or adjudications is entitled to protection, in the absence of an adequate remedy at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nor do we believe that the Railroad Labor Act in any way limited the jurisdiction of the District Court as previously conferred by 28 U.S.C.A., § 41 (1).””
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.