International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 694 · 1951
Citation profile
673 federal appellate · 48 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,074 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button (1963), National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council (1951)
673 federal appellate · 48 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · International Salt Co. v. United States · Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co. · Hughes v. Superior Court
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 1,074 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words 'induce or encourage' are broad enough to include in them every form of influence and persuasion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents — 29 "(4) to engage in, or to induce or encourage the employees of any employer to engage in, a strike * * * where an object thereof is: (A) forcing or requiring * * * any employer or other person to cease * * * doing business with any other person * * *.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he general terms of § 8(c) appropriately give way to the specific provisions of § 8(b) (4).”
6 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.