Felice v. Sever’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 1221 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Podobnik v. United States Postal Service (2005), Northwestern Ohio Administrators, Inc. v. Walcher & Fox, Inc. (2001)
14 federal appellate · 6 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 Vaca v. Sipes · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Hagans v. Lavine
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he thread that links Breininger and other duty of fair representation cases ... is that the union is acting in its role as exclusive bargaining representative in the collective bargaining process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) breached its duty of fair representation (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes, shall be the exclusive representatives of all the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment: Provided, That any individual employee or a group of employees shall have the right at any time to present grievances to their employer and to have such grievances adjusted, without the intervention of the bargaining representative, as long as the adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of a collective-bargaining contract or agreement then in effect: Provided further, That the bargaining representative has been given opportunity to be present at such adjustment.”
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.