United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Dresden Local No v. Ohio Carpenters Health and Welfare Fund T’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 550 · 1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Catz v. Chalker (1998), Hughes v. Vanderbilt University (2000)
17 federal appellate · 1 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. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 411 · 29 U.S.C. § 412
Relies on Finnegan v. Leu · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · Dayco Corp. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Tingler v. Marshall · Central States Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Kraftco, 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As an appellate court, we are not bound to adhere to the [dismissal] label attached to the trial court's disposition of the case and may treat it as a summary judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sec. 412 confers standing to sue under Sec. 411 only on persons who are members of unions and who enjoy the primary rights of rank and file membership, and not on [local unions] or other union sub-units.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not see how extending to component units within a labor organization the rights of members secured by the LMRDA would advance union democracy or protect the right of individual members[.]”
2 later decisions 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.