8 Cal. 3d 572 - Englund v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 757 - White v. Davis (1975), 9 Cal. 3d 626 - Lorenzana v. Superior Court (1973)
10 federal appellate · 75 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Link-Belt Co. · International Ass'n of Machinists; Tool & Die Makers Lodge No. 35 v. National Labor Relations Board · International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union v. National Labor Relations Board · Universal Builders, Inc. v. Clark · 53 Cal. 2d 455 - Petri Cleaners, Inc. v. Automotive Employees, Laundry Drivers & Helpers Local No. 88
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.
“be free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers ... in the designation of [their] representatives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the ultimate form of favoritism, completely substituting the employer's choice of unions for his employees' desires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.