National Labor Relations Board v. International Van Lines’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
178 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 286 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. (1975), El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Neztsosie (1999)
178 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. International Van Lines (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. · Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Express Publishing Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Fleetwood Trailer 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 286 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n employer may refuse to reinstate economic strikers if in the interim he has taken on permanent replacements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if replacements for them have been made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It would undercut the remedial powers of the Board with respect to § 8 violations, and subvert the protection of § 7 of the Act, to hold that the employees’ rights to reinstatement arising from the discriminatory discharges were somehow forfeited merely because they continued for a time to engage in their lawful strike after the unfair labor practices had been committed.””
1 later decision 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.