National Labor Relations Board v. Cabot Carbon Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 12 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Local No. 3-193 International Woodworkers v. Ketchikan Pulp Co. (1980), National Labor Relations Board v. Philamon Laboratories, Inc. (1962)
143 federal appellate · 12 district · 24 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
reviewedCabot Carbon 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. · Morgan v. Ohio · Joliet Contractors Ass'n v. National Labor 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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'labor organization' means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and the committees avoided the usual concept of collective bargaining and (2) the provisions and legislative history of the 1947 amendment of Section 9(a) of the Act demonstrated that Congress excluded such employee committees from the definition of labor organization contained in Section 2(5). The Supreme Court disagreed. 56 First, the Court found that nothing in the plain words of Section 2(5), its legislative history, or the decisions construing it, supported the contention that an employee committee which does not”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely preclude(d) the employers from dominating, interfering with or supporting such employee committees which Congress has defined to be labor organizations.”
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.