National Labor Relations Board v. International Rice Milling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 665 · 1951
Citation profile
320 federal appellate · 30 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 514 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1956), National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board (1967)
320 federal appellate · 30 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedInternational Rice Milling Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Fifth 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. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · International Union Uaw Af of Local 232 v. Wisconsin Employment 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 514 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The limitation of the complaint to an incident in the geographically restricted area near the mill is significant, although not necessarily conclusive.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents--”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in this Act, except as specifically provided for herein, shall be construed so as either to interfere with or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike, or to affect the limitations or qualifications on that right.”
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.