Packard Motor Car Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 485 · 1947
Citation profile
1,083 federal appellate · 15 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,468 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder (1976), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987)
1,083 federal appellate · 15 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 23 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. Packard Motor Car Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1301 (§ 1101 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Texas Co v. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks · National Labor Relations Board v. Link-Belt Co.
Cited together with Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · May Department Stores Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · South Prairie Construction Co. v. Local No. 627, International Union of Operating Engineers
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 1,468 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if not final, is rarely to be disturbed,”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Board shall decide in each case whether, in order to assure to employees the fullest freedom in exercising the rights guaranteed by this [Act], the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining shall be the employer unit, craft unit, plant unit, or subdivision thereof * * *.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is also urged upon us most seriously that unionization of foremen is from many points bad industrial policy, that it puts the union foreman in the position of serving two masters, divides his loyalty and makes generally for bad relations between management and labor. However we might appraise the force of these arguments as a policy matter, we are not authorized to base decision of a question of law upon them. They concern the wisdom of the legislation; they cannot alter the meaning of otherwise plain provisions.”
4 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.