H. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
458 federal appellate · 24 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 827 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Bildisco & Bildisco (1984), National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. (1972)
458 federal appellate · 24 district · 71 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
reviewedH. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · National Labor Relations Board v. Insurance Agents' International Union · National Labor Relations Board v. American National Insurance
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 827 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compel agreement when the parties themselves are unable to agree,”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he basic theme of the Act was that through collective bargaining the passions, arguments, and struggles of prior years would be channeled into constructive, open discussions leading, it was hoped, to mutual agreement”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or require the making of a concession.”
12 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.