Shea v. Tisch’s Empirical Analysis
870 F.2d 786 · 1989
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2002 · most notably US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett (2002), Bates v. Long Island Railroad (1993)
27 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on School Board of Nassau County Florida v. H Arline · Harris v. McRae · United States ex rel. Eichenlaub v. Shaughnessy · Goldman v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Carter v. Tisch
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consequently, we ... conclude that the postal service was not required to accommodate plaintiff further by placing him in a different position since to do so would violate the rights of other employees under the collective bargaining agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would not defeat the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement unless it could be shown that the agreement had the effect or the intent of discrimination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employer is not required to find alternative employment unless he normally does so under his existing policies”
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.