Flanigan’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Buttry v. General Signal Corp. (1995), Spellacy II
2 federal appellate · 4 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 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 · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“begins to run when a plaintiff knows or reasonably should know that the union has breached its duty of fair representation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nion cannot be faulted for acceding to”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause appellants did not ask the Union to process a grievance on this issue, they can not complain that the Union failed to represent them properly.”). 18 . See n. 11, supra. The fact that Mullins remembers Horst using the word”
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.