Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
894 federal appellate · 72 district · 197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,861 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Hishon v. King & Spalding (1984), Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts (1985)
894 federal appellate · 72 district · 197 state decisions — followed in 25 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
reviewedPittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 142 (§ 501 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 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. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · United Mine Workers v. Pennington · Elgin Ry Co v. Burley · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Smith v. Evening News Assn.
Cited together with Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Ford Motor Company v. National Labor Relations Board · Vaca v. Sipes · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation 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 1,861 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder established contract principles, vested retirement rights may not be altered without the pensioner's consent.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an aspect of the relationship between the employer and employees,”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in each case the question is . . . whether (a particular matter) vitally affects the 'terms and conditions' of . . . employment.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.