National Labor Relations Board v. Local Union No. 1229, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
414 federal appellate · 10 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 606 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board (1954), National Labor Relations Board v. Insurance Agents' International Union (1960)
414 federal appellate · 10 district · 34 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
reviewedLocal Union No. 1229, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board · Allen-Bradley Local No 1111 United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America 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 606 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no more elemental cause for discharge of an employee than disloyalty to his employer.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he legal principle that insubordination, disobedience or disloyalty is adequate cause for dismissal is plain enough. The difficulty arises in determining whether, in fact, the discharges are made because of such a separable cause or because of some other concerted activities engaged in for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection which may not be adequate cause for discharge.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for an employer ... to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.