National Labor Relations Board v. Curtin Matheson Scientific, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
400 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 629 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Rust v. Sullivan (1991), Litton Financial Printing Div., Litton Business Systems, Inc. v. NLRB (1991)
400 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 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
reviewedCurtin Matheson Scientific, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 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) · 5 U.S.C. § 554 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 556 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 557 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Mitchell · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co.
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 629 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the primary responsibility for developing and applying national labor policy,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“either (1) the union did not in fact enjoy majority support, or (2) the employer had a 'good-faith' doubt, founded on a sufficient objective basis, of the union's majority support.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“uphold a Board rule as long as it is rational and consistent”
9 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.