Local No. 627, International Union of Operating Engineers v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 1040 · 1975
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably South Prairie Construction Co. v. Local No. 627, International Union of Operating Engineers (1976), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. St. Francis Xavier Parochial School (1997)
58 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Greater Boston Television Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., a Massachusettscorporation, Intervenor. Whdh, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Greater Boston Televisioncorporation, a Massachusetts Corporation, Intervenor. Charles River Civic Television, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., Boston Broadcastersinc., Intervenors. Whdh, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Boston Broadcasters, Inc., Intervenor. Greater Boston Tv Co., Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Whdh, Inc., Boston Broadcastersinc., Intervenors · Linkletter v. Walker · Brady v. Ohio · Radio & Television Broadcast Technicians Local Union 1264 v. Broadcast Service of Mobile, Inc.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arm's length relationship found among unintegrated companies.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a substantial qualitative degree of interrelation of operations and common management one that we are satisfied would not be found in the arm's length relationship existing among unintegrated companies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although, as pointed out above, centralized control of labor relations is one of the 'controlling criteria,' it is not 'critical' in the sense of being the sine qua non of 'single employer' status. Canton, Carp's, Inc., supra (125 N.L.R.B. 483 (1959)). The degree to which such control is present (or absent) is, of course, one of the circumstances upon which 'single employer' status depends.”
2 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.