Medrano v. Excel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 230 · 1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Thomas v. LTV Corp. (1994), Vera v. Saks & Company (2003)
8 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 Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck · Lingle v. Norge Division of Magic Chef, Inc. · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Hechler · United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Rawson · Jones v. Roadway Express, 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the pre-emptive force of Sec. 301 is so powerful as to displace entirely any state cause of action 'for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“claim, without a doubt, is substantially dependent upon the meaning of a term of the CBA and its applicability in this case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the employee] actually drew on the settlement provision of the CBA itself to establish a violation of article 8307c....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. LTV Corp.
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.