National Labor Relations Board v. Howard Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 1287 · 1989
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Crosby v. State of Hawai'i Department of Budget & Finance (1994), Retlaw Broadcasting Co Kjeo-Tv v. National Labor Relations Board (1995)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
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)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Transportation Management Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. City Disposal Systems, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Island Film Processing Co. · Whisper Soft Mills, Inc. 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a substantial or motivating factor' in the decision to terminate the employee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he honest and reasonable invocation by a single employee of a right contained in a collective bargaining agreement is a concerted activity within the meaning of the [NLRA].”
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.