Jw Pruitt v. Carpenters' Local Union No of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Jw Pruitt’s Empirical Analysis
893 F.2d 1216 · 1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Wooddell v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 71 (1991), Brenner v. Local United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (1991)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 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)) · 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959)
Relies on Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'when a rule from elsewhere in federal law clearly provides a closer analogy than available state statutes, and when the federal policies at stake and the practicalities of litigation make that rule a significantly more appropriate vehicle for interstitial lawmaking.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Does section 301 of the Labor-Management Relations Act create a federal cause of action under which a union member may sue his union for a violation of the union constitution?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the plaintiff's well-pleaded complaint simply may raise issues of federal law.”
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.