National Labor Relations Board v. Fleetwood Trailer Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
632 federal appellate · 10 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 942 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Belknap, Inc. v. Hale (1983), Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (1989)
632 federal appellate · 10 district · 51 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Fleetwood Trailer Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 153 (§ 3 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. · Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Erie Resistor Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Great Dane Trailers, Inc.
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 942 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legitimate and substantial business justifications”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)t is the primary responsibility of the Board and not of the courts 'to strike the proper balance between the asserted business justifications and the invasion of employee rights in light of the Act and its policy.'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to reinstatement does not depend upon technicalities relating to application.”
13 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.