Interstate Brands Corporation Butternut Bread Division v. Chauffeurs Teamsters Warehousemen and Helpers Local Union No’s Empirical Analysis
909 F.2d 885 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Marvin v. City of Taylor (2007), Exxon Shipping Company v. Exxon Seamen's Union (1993)
20 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
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile it is indisputable that allowing intoxicated persons to drive motor vehicles violates public policy, it does not follow, however, that any arbitration award reinstating an employee discharged for being intoxicated while off-duty, or arrested for off-duty possession of controlled substances may never be enforced without violating the public policy exception of arbitration awards.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he issue is not whether grievant's conduct for which he was disciplined violated some public policy or law, but rather whether the award requiring the reinstatement of a grievance, i.e., 'the contract as interpreted,' W.R. Grace, 461 U.S. at 766, 103 S. Ct. at 2183, violated some explicit public policy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as long as the arbitrator is even arguably construing or applying the contract and acting within the scope of his authority, that a court is convinced he committed serious error does not suffice to overturn his decision,”
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.