Houston Insulation Contractors Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2009 · most notably National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board (1967), Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board (1976)
84 federal appellate · 6 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
reviewedHouston Insulation Contractors Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Peter Cailler Kohler Swiss Chocolates Co. · Houston Insulation Contractors Ass'n 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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although the aggrieved workman is the only one of them who has any immediate stake in the outcome. The rest know that by their action each of them assures himself, in case his turn ever comes, of the support of the one whom they are all then helping; and the solidarity so established is”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A boycott cannot become secondary because engaged in by primary employees not directly affected by the dispute, or because only engaged in by some of the primary employees, and not the entire group. Since that situation does not involve the employer in a dispute not his own, his employees' conduct in support of their fellow employees is not secondary * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress was not concerned to protect primary employers against pressures by disinterested unions, but rather to protect disinterested employers against direct pressures by any union.”
2 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.