National Labor Relations Board v. Belcher Towing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
284 F.2d 118 · 1960
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 1982 · most notably Carpenters Local Union No of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. Pratt-Farnsworth Inc (1982), National Labor Relations Board v. Joclin Manufacturing Co. (1963)
43 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Shoreline Enterprises of America, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. White Construction & Engineering Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. West Texas Utilities 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether an employee is sufficiently concerned with the terms and conditions of employment in a unit to warrant his participation in the selection of a bargaining agent. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot color the picture as it stood on the critical date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a wide discretion has been vested in the Board,”
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.