National Labor Relations Board v. Knuth Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 950 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2004
13 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Local Union No. 1229, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · National Labor Relations Board v. Burnup & Sims, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Red Top, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. National Furniture 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 7 ... does not immunize an employee from discharge for acts of disloyalty or. misconduct merely because those acts were associated with protected activity. Id. at 953 . (Emphasis added). The court concluded: In revealing the information, [the employee] acted in reckless disregard of his employer’s business interests. Respondent has the right to expect its employees to use greater care in using information acquired in the course of their employment. Failure to use such care was an act of disloyalty to respondent. His avowed purpose of aiding the organizational campaign is insufficient to protect him from the effects of his misconduct and constituted cause for discharge. * * ‘Jfi * * * Section 10(c), 29 U.S.C. § 160 (c), of the Act protects the employer’s right to protect its business interests and, if necessary, to discharge an employee for cause. Congress, while safeguarding in section 7 the right of employees to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining, did not intend to weaken the underlying contractual bonds and loyalties essential to a suitable employer-employee relationship. It was the purpose of the Act to strengthen, rather than weaken, the cooperation and cordial relationship between the employer and his employees. The power of the Act cannot be used as a pretext for infringing the employer’s rights. Id. at 956-57 . (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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