Union Oil Company of California Inc v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 852 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1995
6 federal appellate · 2 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. Bell Aerospace Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Fort Vancouver Plywood Co. · Victoria Station Incorporated v. National Labor Relations Board · Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“regularly have access to confidential information concerning anticipated changes which may result from collective-bargaining negotiations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because most employees have an arguably confidential relationship with management, and because an expansive application of the exclusionary rule would deprive many employees of the right to bargain collectively, the Board has narrowly construed the definition of confidential employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“assist and act in a confidential capacity to persons who formulate, determine, and effectuate management policies in the field of labor relations”
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.