National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
312 federal appellate · 37 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 619 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977), National Labor Relations Board v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (1967)
312 federal appellate · 37 district · 96 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGeneral Motors Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · Garner v. Teamsters, Chauffeurs & Helpers Local Union No. 776 · Retail Clerks International Ass'n, Local 1625 v. Schermerhorn · Algoma Plywood & Veneer Co. v. Wisconsin Employment 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 619 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Membership' as a condition of employment is whittled down to its financial core.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(N)o employer shall justify any discrimination against an employee for nonmembership in a labor organization (A) if he has reasonable grounds for believing that such membership was not available to the employee on the same terms and conditions generally applicable to other members, or (B) if he has reasonable grounds for believing that membership was denied or terminated for reasons other than the failure of the employee to tender the periodic dues and the initiation fees uniformly required as a condition of acquiring or retaining membership.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer ... by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure or employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization. Provided, That nothing in this sub-chapter, or in any other statute of the United States, shall preclude an employer from making an agreement with a labor organization (not established, maintained, or assisted by any action defined in this subsection as an unfair labor practice) to require as a condition of employment membership therein....”
10 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.