National Labor Relations Board v. Waterman Steamship Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
309 U.S. 206 · 1940
Citation profile
586 federal appellate · 15 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 752 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1951), National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. (1944)
586 federal appellate · 15 district · 29 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGlobe Cotton Mills v. National Labor Relations Board (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Morgan v. Commissioner · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · American Federation of Labor v. National Labor Relations Board · Lyeth v. Hoey
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 752 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The control of the election proceedings, and the determination of the steps necessary to conduct that election fairly were matters which Congress entrusted to the Board alone.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * It is of paramount importance that courts not encroach upon this exclusive power of the Board if effect is to be given the intention of Congress to apply an orderly, informed and specialized procedure to the complex, administrative problems arising in the solution of industrial disputes. As it did in setting up other administrative bodies, Congress, has left questions of law which arise before the Board — but not more —ultimately to the traditional review of the judiciary. Not by accident, but in line with a general policy, Congress has deemed it wise to entrust the finding of facts to these specialized agencies. It is essential that courts regard this division of responsibility which Congress as a matter of policy has embodied in the very statute from which the Court of Appeals derived its jurisdiction to act.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“discrimination in regard to * * * employment * * * to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization”
2 later decisions 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.