Alicea v. Suffield Poultry, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 125 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2017
14 federal appellate ·
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))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Vaca v. Sipes · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci · Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude, as a matter of law, that the duty of fair representation is implicated only when an individual or group is treated differently by a union — either through discriminatory, bad faith, or arbitrary conduct — than another individual, group or the collective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“serious misrepresentations that lack rational justification or are improperly motivated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we do not condone fabrications designed to mislead the membership,”
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.