Harlan #4 Coal Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 117 · 1974
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Mosey Manufacturing Company Inc v. National Labor Relations Board (1983), Hedstrom Company v. National Labor Relations Board (1980)
35 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel Packing Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. A. J. Tower Co. · McGautha v. California · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are mindful of the dangers of permitting otherwise valid elections conducted by secret ballot to be set aside because some voters, after post-election introspection and in response to inquiry by their employers,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Board itself has based its findings concerning the impact of various campaign tactics largely on its own speculation and has never conducted an empirical study to determine the impact of various campaign techniques on voting behavior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(C)ongress has entrusted to the Board considerable latitude in resolving disputes concerning representation, and our task is to determine whether the Board has acted arbitrarily in the exercise of its wide degree of discretion.”
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.