Belknap, Inc. v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
258 federal appellate · 47 district · 194 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 770 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts (1985), Golden State Transit Corp. v. City of Los Angeles (1989)
258 federal appellate · 47 district · 194 state decisions — followed in 30 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 163 (§ 13 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Vaca v. Sipes · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Abney v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel Packing Co. · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company
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 770 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deeply rooted in local feeling and responsibility.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interests so deeply rooted in local feeling and responsibility,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]his is just another way of asserting that the employer need not answer for its repeated assurances of permanent employment or for its otherwise actionable misrepresentations....”
7 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.