Scofield v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
302 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 458 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably V Harry E Beck Jr et al. (1988), National Labor Relations Board v. Boeing Co. (1973)
302 federal appellate · 7 district · 45 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
reviewedScofield v. National Labor Relations Board (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America · Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.
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 458 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leaves a union free to enforce a properly adopted rule which reflects a legitimate union interest, impairs no policy Congress has imbedded in the labor laws, and is reasonably enforced against union members who are free to leave the union and escape the rule.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents— (1) to restrain or coerce (A) employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 157 of this title: Provided, That this paragraph shall not impair the right of a labor organization to prescribe its own rules with respect to the acquisition or retention of membership therein;”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule or its enforcement impinges on some policy of the federal labor law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.