National Labor Relations Board v. Gullett Gin Co.’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 361 · 1951
Citation profile
350 federal appellate · 61 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 781 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Lorillard v. Pons (1978), National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. (1974)
350 federal appellate · 61 district · 113 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedGullett Gin Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · Brewster v. Gage · Republic Steel Corporation 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 781 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To decline to deduct state unemployment compensation benefits in computing back pay is not to make the employees more than whole.... Since no consideration has been given or should be given to collateral losses in framing an order to reimburse employees for their lost earnings, manifestly no consideration need be given to collateral benefits which employees may have received.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“earnings of employees from other employment during the back pay period ... and also sums which they failed without excuse to earn.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... we hold that the Board had the power to enter the order in this case refusing to deduct the unemployment compensation payments from back pay, and that in doing so the Board did not abuse its discretion.”
3 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.