National Labor Relations Board v. Express Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 426 · 1941
Citation profile
1,086 federal appellate · 62 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,520 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1969), McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. (1949)
1,086 federal appellate · 62 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Express Pub. Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Swift Company v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n
Cited together with May Department Stores Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Communications Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Link-Belt 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 1,520 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To justify an order restraining other violations it must appear that they bear some resemblance to that which the employer has committed or that danger of their commission in the future is to be anticipated from the course of his conduct in the past.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“authority to restrain generally all other unlawful practices which it has neither found to have been pursued nor persuasively to be related to the proven unlawful conduct”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in any like or related manner interfering with, restraining or coercing its employees in the exercise of their right to self-organization.”
5 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.