West Texas Utilities Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.2d 233 · 1950
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1971 · most notably International Union United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Scofield International Union (1965), United Mine Workers of America v. Arkansas Oak Flooring Co. (1956)
51 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · American Communications Ass'n v. Douds · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · Franks Bros. v. National Labor Relations Board · Medo Photo Supply Corporation 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court has admonished [the courts] . . . many times to give `great weight' to an agency's interpretation of its governing statute * * *. Such deference keeps the inexpertness of courts which must deal with the whole gamut of the law, from distorting the policy of Congress in complex areas of the economy requiring specialized skills and scrutiny.”
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.