Cusano v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
190 F.2d 898 · 1951
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1979 · most notably Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board (1954), National Labor Relations Board v. Erie Resistor Corp. (1963)
63 federal appellate · 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. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. · Holley v. Lawrence
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To adopt petitioner’s view would materially weaken the guarantees of the Act, for the extent of employees’ protected rights would be made to vary with the state of the employer’s mind. We conclude that if the conduct giving rise to the employer’s mistaken belief is itself protected activity, then the employer’s erroneous observations cannot justify the discharge.””
2 later decisions 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.