National Labor Relations Board v. Jh Rutter-Rex Manufacturing Company’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
507 federal appellate · 9 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 771 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody (1975), Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. (1976)
507 federal appellate · 9 district · 42 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
reviewedJ. H. Rutter-Rex Manufacturing Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 555 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Katz · Mastro Plastics Corp. 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 771 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Board is not required to place the consequences of its own delay, even if inordinate, upon wronged employees to the benefit of wrongdoing employers.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to take such affirmative action including reinstatement of employees with or without back pay, as will effectuate the policies of (the Act).”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the employees whole and thus restor(e) the economic status quo that would have obtained but for the company's wrongful (acts).”
10 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.