National Labor Relations Board v. Whitin Machine Works’s Empirical Analysis
204 F.2d 883 · 1953
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007 · most notably Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board (1954), National Labor Relations Board v. Wright Line, a Division of Wright Line, Inc. (1981)
106 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Gaynor News Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Quincy Steel Casting Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Reynolds International Pen 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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Definitions. "When used in this subchapter * * * * * * "(11) The term `supervisor' means any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(w)hen the evidence of the charging party has raised a reasonable inference of discrimination, that inference may still be rendered unreasonable by the employer's excuse or justification . . . so that more evidence must be produced to establish the alleged discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“other circumstances reasonably indicate that the union activity weighed more heavily in the decision to fire him than did dissatisfaction with his performance.”
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.