International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Builders Blacksmiths Forgers Helpers--Local v. Transue & Williams Corp’s Empirical Analysis
879 F.2d 1388 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Robinson v. Johnson (2002), Luden's Inc v. Local Union No of Bakery Confectionery and Tobacco Workers' International Union of America (1994)
17 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon
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.
“[T]he existence of a labor contract `does not depend on its reduction in writing'; it can be shown by conduct manifesting an intention to abide by agreed-upon terms.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whatever the motives behind the plaintiff's and defendant's pleading strategy, to allow the defendant to raise the bar of the statute of limitations after so long a delay [thirty months] and after so many intervening acts had occurred, would make a mockery of the intent and purpose of the statute of limitations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t all relevant times [after the expiration of the CBA], the parties refused to marshal economic weapons and adhered to the grievance and arbitration provisions of their contract”
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.