Muffley v. Spartan Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.3d 534 · 2009
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably PBM Products, LLC v. Mead Johnson & Co. (2011), Frankl v. HTH Corp. (2011)
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 153 (§ 3 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 3345
Relies on Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · Fall River Dyeing & Finishing Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Blackwelder Furniture Co. of Statesville, Inc. v. Seilig Manufacturing Co. · Miller National Labor Relations Board v. California Pacific Medical Center
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“final authority, on behalf of the Board, in respect of the investigation of charges and issuance of complaints under [ 29 U.S.C. § 160 ], and in respect of the prosecution of such complaints before the Board, and shall have such other duties as the Board may prescribe or as may be provided by law. § 153(d) (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“every court that has addressed this issue has found that § 3(d) permits the Board to delegate to the General Counsel its power to seek § 10(j) relief.” Muffley v. Spartan Mining Co., 570 F.3d 534, 540 (4th Cir.2009). The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n such a situation , even a well-established union ... might well lose support over time, such that when the Board does issue its order, it might be impossible for the union to reconstitute”
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.