National Labor Relations Board v. Urban Telephone Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 239 · 1974
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Mosey Manufacturing Company Inc v. National Labor Relations Board (1983), National Labor Relations Board v. Georgetown Dress Corp. (1976)
36 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on International Ass'n of Machinists; Tool & Die Makers Lodge No. 35 v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. A. J. Tower Co. · Amalgamated Utility Workers v. Consolidated Edison Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Zelrich Co. · Colson Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because of [the alleged agent's] close connections with the union and the union's failure to repudiate his threats,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that Rodriguez was a 'conduit' of information from the employees to the union and from the union to the employees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“of another person so as to make such other person responsible for his acts, the question of whether the specific acts performed were actually authorized or subsequently ratified shall not be controlling. 79 This court also recognized that principles of agency should be liberally construed in this context. The court stated that rather than ask whether Rodriguez was an agent of the union, the better formulation was whether Rodriguez' conduct was attributable to the union. The court concluded the union was responsible for Rodriguez' conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.