National Labor Relations Board v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
185 F.2d 378 · 1950
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 1989 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Howell Chevrolet Co. (1953), Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1989)
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 1001
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · United States v. Morton Salt Co. · NLRB v. Fain-Blatt · Market St Ry Co v. Railroad Commission of State of California · National Labor Relations Board v. Bradford Dyeing Ass'n
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Providing the Board acts within its statutory and constitutional power it is not for the courts to say when that power should be exercised. Many factors such as lack of funds or the imminence of a more drastic disruption of commerce in another industry might dictate that in a particular case powers explicitly granted should not be exercised.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in commerce, or burdening or obstructing commerce or the free flow of commerce, or having led or tending to lead to a labor dispute burdening or obstructing commerce or the free flow of commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.