National Labor Relations Board v. Washington Aluminum Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
555 federal appellate · 1 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 777 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1969), National Labor Relations Board v. J. Weingarten, Inc. (1975)
555 federal appellate · 1 district · 62 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. Washington Aluminum Co. (from Fourth 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. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 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. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp.
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 777 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“speak for themselves as best they [can].”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have the right to self-organization ... and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of ... mutual protection.”
11 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.