National Labor Relations Board v. Bradford Dyeing Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 318 · 1940
Citation profile
366 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 482 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991 · most notably Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1951), National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel Packing Co. (1969)
366 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Texas Co v. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks · National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · NLRB v. Fain-Blatt
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 482 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has placed the power to administer the National Labor Relations Act in the Labor Board, subject to the supervisory powers of the Courts of Appeals as the Act sets out. If the Board has acted within the compass of the power given it by Congress, has, on a charge of unfair labor practice, held a `hearing,' which the statute requires, comporting with the standards of fairness inherent in procedural due process, has made findings based upon substantial evidence and has ordered an appropriate remedy, a like obedience to the statutory law on the part of the Court of Appeals requires the court to grant enforcement of the Board's order.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““1. Cease and desist from: “(a) Refusing to bargain collectively with Internationa] Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union #761, a3 the exclusive representative of all its employees in its line and meter departments at Greenfield, Amherst, Easthampton, South Deerfield, and Gardners Falls, Massachusetts . . . [with certain types of employees specifically included or excluded, as to which no question is now raised]; “(b) In any other manner interfering with, restraining or coercing its employees in the exercise of their rights to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing and to engage in concerted activities for the purposes of collective bargaining, or other mutual aid or protection as guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act [ 29 U.S.C.A. § 157 ]. “2. Take the following affirmative action which the Board finds will effectuate the policies of the Act: “(a) Upon request, bargain collectively with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union #761, as the exclusive representative of all its employees in its line and meter departments at Greenfield, Amherst, Easthampton, South Deerfield, and Gardners Falls, Massachusetts . . . “(b) Post immediately in conspicuous places at its various plants and maintain for a period of at least sixty (60) days from the date of posting, notices to its employees stating (1) that the respondent will not engage in the conduct from which it i”
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.