Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. UAL Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 439 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, 139 Ill. 2d 422 - Gendron v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. (1990)
17 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 156 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Cort v. Ash · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · California v. Arc America Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for an initial determination concerning the lawfulness of sections B(1)(b) and C of the machinists' agreement under Delaware law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“weight [that] it intrinsically deserves (which is the same weight we would give to a treatise or a law review article)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sullivan
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.