J. I. Case Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 332 · 1944
Citation profile
547 federal appellate · 58 district · 300 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,381 later decisions (91 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Vaca v. Sipes (1967), Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams (1987)
547 federal appellate · 58 district · 300 state decisions — followed in 34 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · National Licorice Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
Cited together with Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Vaca v. Sipes · Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Medo Photo Supply Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 1,381 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contract in labor law is a term the implications of which must be determined from the connection in which it appears.”
76 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Questions of construction had better be ironed out before enforcement orders issue than upon contempt proceedings. A party is entitled to a definition as exact as the circumstances permit of the acts which he can perform only on pain of contempt of court. Nor should he be ordered to desist from more on the theory that he may violate the literal language and then defend by resort to the Board's construction of it. Courts' orders are not to be trifled with, nor should they invite litigation as to their meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Representatives designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes, shall be the exclusive representatives of all the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment.”
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.