National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 416 · 1947
Citation profile
201 federal appellate · 9 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 324 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Williams v. United States (1951), Griffin v. State of Maryland (1964)
201 federal appellate · 9 district · 39 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. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · May Department Stores Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Cheney California Lumber Co. · Marshall Field & Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a common practice in this country for private watchmen or guards to be vested with the powers of policemen, sheriffs or peace officers to protect the private property of their private employers. And when they are performing their police functions, they are acting as public officers and assume all the powers and liabilities attaching thereto.” (Citations omitted.)”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the order obviously has become moot, the court can deny enforcement without further ado; but where the matter is one involving complicated or disputed facts or questions of statutory policy, a remand to the Board is ordinarily in order.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) The Board shall decide in each case whether, in order to assure to employees the fullest freedom in exercising the rights guaranteed by this subchapter, the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining shall be the employer unit, craft unit, plant unit, or subdivision thereof: Provided, That the Board shall not (3) decide that any unit is appropriate for such purposes if it includes, together with other employees, any individual employed as a guard to enforce against employees and other persons rules to protect property of the employer or to protect the safety of persons on the employer’s premises; but no labor organization shall be certified as the representative of employees in a bargaining unit of guards if such organization admits to membership, or is affiliated directly or indirectly with an organization which admits to membership, employees other than guards.”
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.