National Labor Relations Board v. Exchange Parts Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
650 federal appellate · 24 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 822 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. (1978), Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (1983)
650 federal appellate · 24 district · 17 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. Exchange Parts Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Medo Photo Supply Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. El Paso Natural Gas Co. · Joliet Contractors Ass'n 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 822 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The danger inherent in well-timed increases in benefits is the suggestion of a fist inside the velvet glove. Employees are not likely to miss the inference that the source of benefits now conferred is also the source from which future benefits must flow and which may dry up if it is not obliged.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct immediately favorable to employees which is undertaken with the express purpose of impinging upon their freedom of choice for or against unionization and is reasonably calculated to have that effect.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. House of Raeford Farms, Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board, Local Union 204, United Food and Commercial Workers, Intervenor. National Labor Relations Board v. House of Raeford Farms, Incorporated · 937 F. Supp. 617 - Ahearn Ex Rel. National Labor Relations Board v. Audubon Regional Medical Center
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.