National Labor Relations Board v. Beth Israel Hospital’s Empirical Analysis

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45 federal appellate ·

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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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'a heavy continuing responsibility to review its policies concerning organizational activities in various parts of hospitals. Hospitals carry on a public function of the utmost seriousness and importance. They give rise to unique considerations that do not apply in the industrial settings with which the Board is more familiar. The Board should stand ready to revise its rulings if future experience demonstrates that the well-being of patients is in fact jeopardized.'”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Edgewood Nursing Center, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

2. “There is to be no soliciting of the general public (patients, visitors) on Hospital property. Soliciting and the distribution of literature to B. I. employees may be done by other B. I. employees, when neither individual is on his or her working time, in employee-only areas—employee locker rooms and certain adjacent rest rooms. Elsewhere within the Hospital including patient-care and all other work areas, and areas open to the public such as lobbies, cafeteria and coffee shop, corridors, elevators, gift shop, etc., there is to be no solicitation nor distribution of literature. 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Beth Israel Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board

3. “is essential, however, to an understanding of both the operation of the presumption and the Board's final order in the present case. The Hospital's rule prohibits solicitation in all areas of the Hospital open to patients or visitors, and the complaint charged that the Hospital had violated § 8(a)(1) by maintaining an overly broad rule against solicitation. 223 N.L.R.B., at 347, 355. The Board's order covers all areas of the Hospital, and explicitly limits application of a no-solicitation rule to areas of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. National Labor Relations Board v. Baptist Hospital, Inc.