Pattern Makers' League v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
153 federal appellate · 15 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 267 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. v. Florida Gulf Coast Building & Construction Trades Council (1988), V Harry E Beck Jr et al. (1988)
153 federal appellate · 15 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
reviewedPattern Makers' League, AFL-CIO v. National Labor Relations Board (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 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. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 163 (§ 13 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Brown
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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affected by an agreement requiring membership.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“merely because the courts might prefer another view of the statute.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“special competence in the field of labor relations”
8 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.