Cone Bros. Contracting Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 37 · 1956
Citation profile
42 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 1981 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Dan River Mills, Inc. (1960), National Labor Relations Board v. Air Control Products of St. Petersburg, Inc. (1964)
42 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on Brooks v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. A. J. Tower Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Crompton-Highland Mills, Inc. · United States v. Bell Aircraft Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. McGahey
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the forthright, albeit risky, course of declining to bargain as the means of testing its convictions. * * * But in doing this, the Employer anticipated, as it came to pass, that the soundness of its claim of illegality would be determined in the inevitable (and present) Complaint Proceeding and not by self-help which would be condemned, * * *.”
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.