Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 495 · 1935
Citation profile
755 federal appellate · 263 district · 602 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,711 later decisions (234 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board (1938), Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
755 federal appellate · 263 district · 602 state decisions — followed in 44 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · Swift Company v. United States · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Cited together with Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · Yakus v. United States · Mistretta v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
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 2,711 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fundamental one, essential to the maintenance of our constitutional system.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Congress is not permitted to abdicate or to transfer to others the essential legislative functions with which it is thus vested.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Constitution has never been regarded as denying to Congress the necessary resources of flexibility and practicality, which will enable it to perform its function in laying down policies and establishing standards, while leaving to selected instrumentalities the making of subordinate rules within prescribed limits and the determination of facts to which the policy as declared by the Legislature is to apply.”
13 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.