Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
288 U.S. 294 · 1933
Citation profile
736 federal appellate · 123 district · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,796 later decisions (159 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1978), United States v. American Trucking Associations (1940)
736 federal appellate · 123 district · 182 state decisions — followed in 23 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
Relies on Smyth v. Ames · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · Field v. Clark
Cited together with Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers · Udall v. Tallman · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 1,796 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has peculiar weight when it involves a contemporaneous construction of a statute by the men charged with the responsibility of setting its machinery in motion; of making the parts work efficiently and smoothly while they are yet untried and new.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No one has a legal right to the maintenance of an existing rate or duty.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * What is done by the Tariff Commission and the President in changing the tariff rates to conform to new conditions is in substance a delegation, though a permissible one, of the legislative -process. [Emphasis mine.]”
3 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.