Souter v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers, Local 72’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 595 · 1993
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Lb Credit Corporation v. Resolution Trust Corporation, as Receiver for Concordia Federal Bank for Savings (1995), Retired Chicago Police Ass'n v. City of Chicago (1996)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. O'Neill · Bryson Properties, XVIII v. Travelers Insurance Co.
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.
“the union's willingness to pursue [plaintiff's] meritorious claim tends to show that it bore no ill will toward him [when it dropped his meritless claim]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“showed only that the union questioned the merit of Souter's grievance, not that it treated Souter with hostility 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.