Trap Rock Industries, Inc. v. Local 825, International Union of Operating Engineers’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 884 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 49 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Bixler v. Central Pennsylvania Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund (1993), Charles Grigson River City Films Inc
17 federal appellate · 49 district · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plain language of Rule 56(c) mandates the entry of summary judgment, after adequate time for discovery and upon motion, against a party who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party’s case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right, which right shall not be subject to Arbitration, to determine the qualifications of any Employee covered hereunder and if, in the Employer's opinion, the Employee does not meet the qualifications or fails to perform his duties properly, then the Employer can Discharge or demote the Employee, whichever the Employer desires. The Employer will notify the Emplolyee [sic] and Union of such action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the arbitration provision . . . [was] narrowly crafted to apply only to certain disciplinary discharges and layoffs, we [could] not presume, as we might if it were drafted broadly, that the parties here agreed to submit all disputes to arbitration . . . Thus, the presumption of arbitrability . . . [is] inapposite.”
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.