National Labor Relations Board v. Acme Industrial Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
636 federal appellate · 16 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 965 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Vaca v. Sipes (1967), United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell (1981)
636 federal appellate · 16 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · Carey v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Mills v. Alabama
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 965 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a probability that the information is relevant and that it will be of use to the union in carrying out its statutory duties.'”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There can be no question of the general obligation of an employer to provide information that is needed by the bargaining representative for the proper performance of its duties.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * [T]he duty to bargain unquestionably extends beyond the period of contract negotiations and applies to labor-management relations during the term of an agreement.”
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.