Keffer’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers v. Skinner Engine Co. (1999), Roth v. City of Glendale (2000)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United States · Transportation-Communication Employees Union v. Union Pacific Railroad · Bowen v. United States Postal Service · International Union United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Uaw v. Yard-Man Incorporated
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court must consider . . . practices, usage and customs pertaining to [related] agreements”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[cjourts can find that rights have vested under a CBA even if the intent to vest has not been explicitly set out in the agreement. CBAs may contain implied terms, and the parties’ practice, usage, and custom can be considered. Retiree benefits are “in a sense ‘status’ benefits which, as such, carry with them an inference ... that the parties likely intended those benefits to continue as long as the beneficiary remains a retiree.” This is because “[benefits for retirees are only permissive not mandatory subjects of collective bargaining. As such, it is unlikely that such benefits, which are typically understood as a form of delayed compensation or reward for past services, would be left to the contingencies of future negotiations.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. gross undercapitalization of the subservient corporation 2. failure to observe corporate formalities 3. nonpayment of dividends 4. siphoning of corporate funds by the controlling entity 5. non-functioning of officers and directors 6. absence of corporate records 7. the corporation is merely a facade for the operation of the dominant stockholder or stockholders”
2 later decisions 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.