National Labor Relations Board v. Retail Store Employees Union, Local 1001’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 18 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Frisby v. Schultz (1988), Leila Jeanne Hill Audrey Himmelmann Everitt Simpsons v. Colorado (2000)
69 federal appellate · 18 district · 22 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council · Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · Lewis v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Fruit & Vegetable Packers & Warehousemen, Local 760
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably can be expected to threaten neutral parties with ruin or substantial loss ...,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the secondary appeal is reasonably likely to threaten the neutral party with ruin or substantial loss.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“predictably encourages consumers to boycott a secondary business,”
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.