Boire v. Greyhound Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
812 federal appellate · 114 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,427 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees v. Association for the Benefit of Non-Contract Employees (1965), Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board (1983)
812 federal appellate · 114 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedBoire v. Greyhound Corp. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 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)
Relies on Leedom v. Kyne · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · American Federation of Labor v. National Labor Relations Board · McCulloch v. Sociedad Nacional De Marineros De Honduras
Cited together with Leedom v. Kyne · American Federation of Labor v. National Labor Relations Board · McCulloch v. Sociedad Nacional De Marineros De Honduras · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding 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 1,427 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Kyne exception is a narrow one, not to be extended to permit plenary district court review of Board orders in certification proceedings whenever it can be said that an erroneous assessment of the particular facts before the Board has led it to a conclusion which does not comport with the law.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made in excess of its delegated powers and contrary to a specific prohibition in the Act.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) Whenever an order of the Board made pursuant to section 160(c) of this title is based in whole or in part upon facts certified following an investigation pursuant to subsection (c) of this section and there is a petition for the enforcement or review of such order, such certification and the record of such investigation shall be included in the transcript of the entire record required to be filed under subsection (e) or (f) of section 160 of this title, and thereupon the decree of the court enforcing, modifying, or setting aside in whole or in part the order of the Board shall be made and entered upon the pleadings, testimony, and proceedings set forth in such transcript.”
8 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.