National Labor Relations Board v. Bostik Division, USM Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
517 F.2d 971 · 1975
Citation profile
60 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Mosey Manufacturing Company Inc v. National Labor Relations Board (1983), Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union v. National Labor Relations Board (1984)
60 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 McGautha v. California · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · National Labor Relations Board v. Golden Age Beverage Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. White Knight Manufacturing 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only that unlawful acts occurred, but also that they interfered with the employees' exercise of free choice to such an extent that they materially affected the results of the election.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party who seeks to overturn the results of a representation election has the burden to show that the election was not fairly conducted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are of the opinion that the Board did not abuse its discretion in concluding that “there did not exist at the time of the election an atmosphere of fear and reprisal rendering a free expression of ideas impossible.””
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.