National Labor Relations Board v. Wooster Division of Borgwarner Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
668 federal appellate · 21 district · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,121 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1964), National Labor Relations Board v. Katz (1962)
668 federal appellate · 21 district · 133 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Wooster Division of Borg-Warner Corporation, International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Uaw-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board, and Wooster Division of Borg-Warner Corporation (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 171 (§ 201 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 173 (§ 203 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 179 (§ 209 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. American National Insurance · Medo Photo Supply Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa
Cited together with National Labor Relations Board v. Katz · National Labor Relations Board v. American National Insurance · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Insurance Agents' International Union
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 1,121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“each party is free to bargain or not to bargain, and to agree or not to agree.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.