Local 1976, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
465 federal appellate · 66 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 821 later decisions (67 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States (1962), Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill (1985)
465 federal appellate · 66 district · 18 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Local 1976, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2 · 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 49 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader · National Licorice Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Irvine v. People of State of California
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 821 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Employees must be induced; they must be induced to engage in a strike or concerted refusal; an object must be to force or require their employer or another person to cease doing business with a third person.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“forcing or requiring * * any employer or other person * * * to cease doing business with any other person.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“balance ... between the uncontrolled power of management and labor to further their respective interests”
9 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.