National Labor Relations Board v. Local Union No. 55’s Empirical Analysis
218 F.2d 226 · 1954
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board (1967), Local 761, International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers v. National Labor Relations Board (1961)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. National Maritime Union of America · National Labor Relations Board v. Service Trade Chauffeurs, Salesmen & Helpers, Local 145
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, at the common situs, construction work was being carried on by the Insurance Company, the primary employer, and by certain subcontractors. The object of the picketing was to compel the Insurance Company to recognize one of the respondents as the bargaining agent for its employees and to cease working nonunion men alongside of union members. The picketing signs were not directed at the primary employer alone, but at the project, at which secondary employers were also working. It read: ‘Working Conditions on This Job Unfair to Carpenters’ District Council.’ It is a reasonable inference from the evidence that a primary purpose of the picketing was to cause the employees of the subcontractors to cease working on the project and prevent the subcontractors from completing the construction under their subcontracts, as a means of compelling the Insurance Company to recognize one of the respondents as the bargaining agent for its employees and to cease working nonunion men on the project. That was the only way that the respondents could accomplish their objectives, so long as union employees of the subcontractors were willing to work on the project with nonunion employees of the Insurance Company and the nonunion employees of the Insurance Company were unwilling to recognize either of the respondents as their bargaining agent and to become members of the Union. “We conclude that under the undisputed facts and the reasonable inferences deductible therefrom, which it was the pecu”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the dual congressional objectives of preserving the right of labor organizations to bring pressure to bear on offending employers in primary labor disputes and of shielding unoffending employers and others from pressures in controversies not their own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were caught working on a nonunion job with nonunion men, * * * that man would be warned first and charges preferred against him, second, * * *.”
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.