National Labor Relations Board v. Marshall Field & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.2d 169 · 1942
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1984 · most notably May Department Stores Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (1945), National Labor Relations Board v. Gullett Gin Co. (1951)
9 federal appellate · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Republic Steel Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Sprinkle v. Davis · Shea v. Rettie · National Labor Relations Board v. Brashear Freight Lines, Inc. · Hayes v. Morris & 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘earnings’ denotes an ‘economic good to which a person becomes entitled for rendering economic service.’ Webster’s New International Dictionary, 2d Ed., unabridged 1937. See, also, National Labor Relations Board v. Brashear Freight Lines, Inc., 8 Cir., 127 F. 2d 198 ; Words "and Phrases, Perm. .Ed., Earnings, Volume 14, page 31.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“equal to that which they would normally have earned as wages”
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.