Radio & Television Broadcast Technicians Local Union 1264 v. Broadcast Service of Mobile, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
335 federal appellate · 113 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 824 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably South Prairie Construction Co. v. Local No. 627, International Union of Operating Engineers (1976), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. St. Francis Xavier Parochial School (1997)
335 federal appellate · 113 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 14 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. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 164 (§ 14 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Linkletter v. Walker · Local No. 438 Construction & General Laborers' Union v. Curry · Sakrete of Northern California, Inc. 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 824 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the controlling criteria ... are interrelation of operations, common management, centralized control of labor relations and common ownership.”
23 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.