National Labor Relations Board v. Nash-Finch Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
180 federal appellate · 30 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 486 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably O'Shea v. Littleton (1974), Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts (1985)
180 federal appellate · 30 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 10 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. Nash-Finch Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 104 · 28 U.S.C. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 161 (§ 11 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 164 (§ 14 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Younger v. Harris · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America v. P Lockridge
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 486 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be controlled by the free play of economic forces.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“avoid unseemly conflict between the state and the federal courts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as expressly authorized by Act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction, or to protect or effectuate its judgments.”
7 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.