International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 481 v. Sign-Craft, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 499 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Teamsters Local No v. B & M Transit Inc (1989), Kinney v. Pioneer Press (1989)
12 federal appellate ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) provides: 27 Suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce as defined in this chapter, or between any such labor organizations, may be brought in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to the amount in controversy or without regard to the citizenship of the parties. 28 29 U.S.C. § 185(a). 29 In International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 481 v. Sign-Craft, Inc. , this Court held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under § 301(a) any disputes about the meaning or validity of collective bargaining agreements come within the jurisdiction of the federal courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.