National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
783 federal appellate · 95 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,526 later decisions (66 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974), Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois (1977)
783 federal appellate · 95 district · 30 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
reviewedNational Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board, National Labor Relations Board v. Metropolitan District Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Afl-Cio, Metropolitan District Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · United Mine Workers v. Pennington · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council
Cited together with Local 1976, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners v. National Labor Relations Board · NLRB v. Pipefitters · Connell Construction Co. v. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Union No. 100 · Local 761, International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Local 825, International Union of Operating Engineers
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 1,526 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tactically calculated to satisfy union objectives elsewhere.”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shielding unoffending employers and others from pressures in controversies not their own.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It shall be an unfair labor practice for any labor organization and any employer to enter into any contract or agreement ... whereby such employer ceases or refrains or agrees to cease or refrain from ... dealing in any of the products of any employer, or to cease doing business with any other person____””
31 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.