Local 100 of United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices v. H N Borden’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 27 district · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 395 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Vaca v. Sipes (1967), Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America v. P Lockridge (1971)
95 federal appellate · 27 district · 138 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.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · Moore v. Illinois Central Railroad · Local 357, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers 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 395 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the States as well as the federal courts must defer to the exclusive competence of the National Labor Relations Board * * *.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It cannot plausibly be argued, in any meaningful sense, that Lockridge’s lawsuit “was focused on purely internal union matters.” Although nothing said in Garmon necessarily suggests that States cannot regulate the general conditions which unions may impose on their membership, it surely makes crystal clear that Gonzales does not stand for the proposition that resolution of any union-member conflict is within state competence so long as one of the remedies provided is restoration of union membership.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“thus incorporated in section 8(b)(2) [and] is broad enough to embrace participation in union activities and maintenance of good standing....”
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.