National Labor Relations Board v. A. J. Tower Co.’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 324 · 1946
Citation profile
836 federal appellate · 15 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,052 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co. (1969), National Labor Relations Board v. Savair Manufacturing Co. (1973)
836 federal appellate · 15 district · 15 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. A. J. Tower Co. (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · Southern Ss Co v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Falk Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Capitol Greyhound Lines
Cited together with Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Savair Manufacturing Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Mattison MacHine Works
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 1,052 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has entrusted the Board with a wide degree of discretion in establishing the procedure and safeguards necessary to insure the fair and free choice of bargaining representatives by employees.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a justifiable and reasonable adjustment of the democratic process,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even where it subsequently is ascertainable that some of the votes cast were in fact ineligible and that the result of the election might have been different had the truth previously been known.”
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.