Nolde Brothers Inc v.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
411 federal appellate · 120 district · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,297 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers (1986), Litton Financial Printing Div., Litton Business Systems, Inc. v. NLRB (1991)
411 federal appellate · 120 district · 133 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedLocal Number 358, Bakery & Confectionery Workers Union, Afl-Cio v. Nolde Brothers, Incorporated (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 173 (§ 203 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770
Cited together with United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · United Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co. · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp
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 1,297 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of some contrary indication, there are strong reasons to conclude that the parties did not intend their arbitration duties to terminate automatically with the contract.”
80 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be negated expressly or by clear implication.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“although arising after the expiration of the collective-bargaining contract, clearly arises under that contract.”
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.