National Labor Relations Board v. Delta Gas, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 309 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. McCullough Environmental Services, Inc. (1993), National Labor Relations Board v. Adco Electric Inc. (1993)
19 federal appellate ·
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. § 157 (§ 7 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Transportation Management Corp. · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Florida v. Royer · National Labor Relations Board v. Wright Line, a Division of Wright Line, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since an employer rarely admits that it discharged an employee for engaging in protected concerted activities, the NLRB may rely on circumstantial evidence in determining an employer's actual motive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“supported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
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.