United Steelworkers v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
151 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 274 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board (1976), Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. (1969)
151 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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
reviewedCarrier Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Local 761, International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. International Rice Milling Co.
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 274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) (ii) to threaten, coerce, or restrain any person engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting commerce, where in either case an object thereof is — * * * 19 (B) forcing or requiring any person to cease using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in the products of any other producer, processor, or manufacturer, or to cease doing business with any other person, or forcing or requiring any other employer to recognize or bargain with a labor organization as the representative of his employees unless such labor organization has been certified as the representative of such employees under the provisions of section 159 of this title: PROVIDED, that nothing contained in this clause (B) shall be construed to make unlawful, where not otherwise unlawful, any primary strike or primary picketing.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The primary strike, which is protected by the proviso, is aimed at applying economic pressure by halting the day-to-day operations of the struck employer. But Congress not only preserved the right to strike; it also saved ‘primary picketing’ from the secondary ban.” United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO v. NLRB, 376 U.S. 492 , 499, 84 S.Ct. 899 , 904, 11 L. Ed.2d 863 (1964).”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the purposes of Sec. 8(b)(4) picketing at a situs so proximate and related to the employer's day-to-day operations is no more illegal than if it had occurred at a gate owned by Carrier.”
6 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.