Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Winona Bridge Railway Company’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 1266 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United Transportation Union v. Gateway Western Railway Co. (1996), Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n (1990)
19 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2321 · 29 U.S.C. § 108 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 151A · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 155 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 156 (Railway Labor Act) · 49 U.S.C. § 10901
Relies on Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Pelaes v. United States · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad · Lawrence v. United States
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“growing out of grievances or out of the interpretation or application of [collective bargaining] agreements,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A trackage rights agreement essentially grants rights to a carrier to operate trains over the grantor’s track. Such an agreement may limit the use of the track by withholding permission to serve customers along the track, limiting service to specified points on the track or granting unimpaired rights to service points on the track.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e conclude that a dispute resulting from a rail trackage rights agreement where a carrier leases trackage rights to a wholly owned, completely dependent subsidiary for the sole purpose of avoiding its RLA and contractual responsibilities, is ... subject to resolution under [Section 6 of] the RLA.”
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.