Local 761, International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
363 federal appellate · 29 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 712 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board (1967), American Ship Building Company v. National Labor Relations Board (1965)
363 federal appellate · 29 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
reviewedLocal 761, International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers v. National Labor Relations Board (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Local 1976, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners 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 712 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(p)icketing which induces secondary employees to respect a picket line is not the equivalent of picketing which has an object of inducing those employees to engage in concerted conduct against their employer in order to force him to refuse to deal with the struck employer.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that the picketing be limited to times when the situs of dispute was located on the secondary premises, (2) that the primary employer be engaged in his normal business at the situs, (3) that the picketing take place reasonably close to the situs, and (4) that the picketing clearly disclose that the dispute was only with the primary employer.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it does not present a glaringly bright line.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. International Longshoremen's Association, Afl-Cio and Council of North Atlantic Shipping Associations v. National Labor Relations Board, International Longshoremen's Association, Afl-Cio and Council of North Atlanticshipping Associations v. National Labor Relations Board, Houff Transfer, Inc., Intervenor. International Longshoremen's Association, Afl-Cio and New York Shippingassociation, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Squillacote ex rel. National Labor Relations Board v. Building & Construction Trades Council
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.