Ohio Power Co. v. N.L.R.B.’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.2d 385 · 1949
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Marine Engineers Beneficial Association v. Interlake Steamship Company (1962), National Labor Relations Board v. Air Control Products of St. Petersburg, Inc. (1964)
92 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank · United States v. Shreveport Grain & Elevator Co. · George Van Camp & Sons Co. v. American Can Co.
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘supervisor’ means any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To be responsible is to be answerable for the discharge of a duty or obligation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require the exercise of the power described for all or any definite part of the employee's time. It is the existence of the power which determines the classification.”
2 later decisions 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.