William J. Burns International Detective Agency, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 911 · 1971
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. (1972), Kentron Hawaii, Limited v. John W. Warner, Secretary of the Navy International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio, an Unincorporated Association Local 1260, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio v. John W. Warner, Secretary of the Navy (1973)
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Relationships
Relies on John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · Packard Motor Car Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · H. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · In re Whittington · National Labor Relations Board v. Mexia Textile Mills, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All of the important factors which the Board has used and the courts have approved are present in the instant case: “continuation of the same types of product lines, departmental organization, employee identity and job functions.” ... Both Burns and Wackenhut are nationwide organizations; both performed the identical services at the same facility; although Burns used its own supervisors, their functions and responsibilities were similar to those performed by their predecessors; and finally, and perhaps most significantly, Burns commenced performance of the contract with 27 former Wackenhut employees out of its total complement of 42. Although the labor policies of the two companies differed somewhat, the Board’s determination that the bargaining unit remained appropriate after the changeover meant that Burns would face essentially the same labor relations environment as Wackenhut: it would confront the same union representing most of the same employees in the same unit.”
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.