Walker’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Vaca v. Sipes · United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To sustain a member's action against his union under Griffin standards, it is not necessary that the union's breach be intentional. A union representative could be so indifferent to the rights of members or so grossly deficient in its conduct purporting to protect the rights of members that the conduct could be equated with arbitrary action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith”
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.