NLRB v. Servette, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. v. Florida Gulf Coast Building & Construction Trades Council (1988), Livadas v. Bradshaw (1994)
129 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 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
reviewedServette, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · Local 1976, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Fruit & Vegetable Packers & Warehousemen, Local 760 · Illinois ex rel. Kennedy v. Hurley · Massiah v. United States
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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is nothing in the legislative history which suggests that the protection of the proviso was intended to be any narrower in coverage than the prohibition to which it is an exception, and we see no basis for attributing such an incongruous purpose to Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'was the outgrowth of a profound Senate concern that the unions' freedom to appeal to the public for support of their case be adequately safeguarded.' NLRB v. Servette, Inc., 377 U.S. 46 , 55, 84 S.Ct. 1098, 1104, 12 L.Ed.2d 121 (1964).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statutory protection for the distribution of handbills would be undermined if a threat to engage in protected conduct were not itself protected”
3 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.