Carey v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
724 federal appellate · 95 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,353 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. (1974), Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America v. P Lockridge (1971)
724 federal appellate · 95 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 16 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. § 151 (§ 1 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 171 (§ 201 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 173 (§ 203 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · Charles Dowd Box Co. v. Courtney
Cited together with United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala.
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 1,353 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Board's ruling would, of course, take precedence.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[s]hould the Board disagree with the arbiter ... the Board's ruling would, of course, take precedence.... The superior authority of the Board may be invoked at any time.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The underlying objective of the national labor laws is to promote collective bargaining agreements and to help give substance to such agreements through the arbitration process.”
15 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.