American Broadcasting Companies v. Writers Guild of America, West, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012 · most notably United States v. Scott (1978), National Labor Relations Board v. Amax Coal Co. (1981)
75 federal appellate · 5 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
reviewedAmerican Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Inc., Intervenor v. National Labor Relations Board, National Labor Relations Board, and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Intervenors v. Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Erie Resistor Corp. · American Ship Building Company v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Insurance Agents' International Union
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“peculiarly the kind of determination that Congress has assigned to the Board,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents--(1) to restrain or coerce ... (B) an employer in the selection of his representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining or the adjustment of grievances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he function of striking [the] balance to effectuate national labor policy is often a difficult and delicate responsibility, which the Congress committed primarily to the National Labor Relations Board, subject to limited judicial review.”
3 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.