Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4,254 federal appellate · 1,162 district · 966 state decisions

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 14,641 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”

   768 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System v. First Lincolnwood Corporation

2. “(T)his authority to order affirmative action does not go so far as to confer a punitive jurisdiction enabling the Board to inflict upon the employer any penalty it may choose because he is engaged in unfair labor practices, even though the Board be of the opinion that the policies of the Act might be effectuated by such an order. The power to command affirmative action is remedial, not punitive, and is to be exercised in aid of the Board's authority to restrain violations and as a means of removing or avoiding the consequences of violation where those consequences are of a kind to thwart the purposes of the Act.”

   14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. National Labor Relations Board v. Stowe Spinning Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Mark J. Gerry, Inc.

3. ““ * * respondent, Tovrea Packing Company * * shall: “1. Cease and desist from: “(a) Discouraging membership in Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, of North America or any other labor organization of its employees, by discriminating against its employees in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment; “(b) Dominating or interfering with the administration of Tovrea Employees’ Association, or dominating or interfering with the formation or administration of any other labor organization of its employees, or contributing support thereto; “(c) In any other manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing its employees in the exercise of the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, or to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection as guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act; “(d) Giving effect to its contract with Tovrea Employees’ Association. “2. Take the following affirmative action which the Board finds will effectuate the policies of the Act: “(a) Withdraw all recognition from Tovrea Employees’ Association as a representative of any of its employees for the purpose of dealing with it concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work, and completely disestablish said Association to such representative; “(b) Offer to [naming”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. National Labor Relations Board v. Stowe Spinning Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Tovrea Packing Co.