Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local No Afl-Cio v. Arizona Mechanical & Stainless Inc’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Kaplan v. First Options of Chicago, Inc. (1994), Stead Motors of Walnut Creek v. Automotive Machinists Lodge No International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). Second, the arbitrator implicitly concluded that the position offered to Weider was not comparable because of the loss of seniority. Even if we disagreed with that conclusion, we must affirm the arbitrator's award. The award represents a plausible interpretation of the contract; therefore,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[j]udicial scrutiny of an arbitrator's decision is extremely limited.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he question whether Richwood [the successor employer] adopted the [collective bargaining agreement’s arbitration provision, or was bound by it as an alter ego or single employer, was for the district court in the present case. We remand to the district court for a de novo determination whether Richwood was in fact the alter ego of AMS [the predecessor employer] or otherwise bound by the terms of AMS’ [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.