Local 636 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board, National Labor Relations Board v. Detroit Association of Plumbing Contractors’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union v. National Labor Relations Board (1977), Jas. H. Matthews & Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (1965)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · International Ass'n of Machinists; Tool & Die Makers Lodge No. 35 v. National Labor Relations Board · H. J. Heinz Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)t is not alone that (the employee) may hire or fire or lay off or discipline. He must do so in the interest of the employer. * * * (T)here must be a determination of status based upon the `nature' of the supervisory position and `how completely the responsibilities of the particular position identify the holder of the position with management,' all `because of the infinite possible variations in responsibilities enumerated in § 2(11)' * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every member of a labor organization shall have equal rights and privileges within such organization to nominate candidates, to vote in elections or referendums of the labor organization, to attend membership meetings, and to participate in the deliberations and voting upon the business of such meetings, subject to reasonable rules and regulations in such organization’s constitution and bylaws.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Nothing herein shall prohibit any individual employed as a supervisor from becoming or remaining a member of a labor organization, but no employer subject to this subchapter shall be compelled to deem individuals defined herein as supervisors as employees for the purpose of any law, either national or local, relating to collective bargaining.”
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.