Tucker v. Bieber’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 973 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2013
5 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Finnegan v. Leu · Pinney Dock & Transport Co. v. Penn Central Corp. · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · United Steelworkers of America v. Sadlowski
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not restrict the freedom of an elected union leader to choose a staff whose views are compatible with his own. Indeed, neither the language nor the legislative history of the [LMRDA] suggest that it was intended even to address the issue of union patronage. To the contrary, the [LMRDA’s] overriding objective was to ensure that unions would be democratically governed, and responsive to the will of the union membership as expressed in open, periodic elections. [Citations omitted]. Far from being inconsistent with this purpose, the ability of an elected union president to select his own administrators is an integral part of ensuring a union administration’s responsiveness to the mandate of the union election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Title I [of the LMRDA] protects rank and file union members who speak out against union leaders or who seek elective union offices.”
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.