Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
653 federal appellate · 120 district · 580 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,962 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois (1968), Vaca v. Sipes (1967)
653 federal appellate · 120 district · 580 state decisions — followed in 44 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
reviewedLinn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114 (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 164 (§ 14 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 187 (§ 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Thornhill v. Alabama · Garrison v. State of Louisiana · Smith v. Evening News Assn.
Cited together with San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Farmer v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 25 · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. San Diego County District Council of Carpenters · Old Dominion Branch No. 496 v. Austin
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 1,962 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interests so deeply rooted in local feeling and responsibility that, in the absence of compelling congressional direction, we could not infer that Congress had deprived the States of the power to act.”
102 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The function of libel suits in preventing violence has long been recognized." 383 U.S. at 64 n. 6, 86 S.Ct. at 664 n. 6, 15 L.Ed.2d at 590 n. 6.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Board would not be ignored since its sanctions alone can adjust the equilibrium disturbed by an unfair labor practice.”
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.