Dashiell’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2010
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Relies on Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · International Ass'n of MacHinists v. Street · Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. Hudson · Ellis v. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes · V Harry E Beck Jr et al.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The test of adequacy of the initial explanation to be provided by the union is not whether the information supplied is sufficient to enable the employee to determine in any final sense whether the union's proposed fee is a correct one, but only whether the information is sufficient to enable the employee to decide whether to object. If the employee objects, then the union will be called upon to demonstrate more completely its justification for the fee, because [the burden of proof in establishing the charges validly chargeable ... rests on defendant unions'" Dashiell, 925 F.2d at 756 (quoting Beck v. Communications Workers of America, 776 F.2d 1187 , 1209 (4th Cir.1985)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To impose such a requirement would result in cireulation of a document as long and complicated as an SEC prospectus.”
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.