National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co.’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 292 · 1939
Citation profile
786 federal appellate · 155 district · 195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,976 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1951), Richardson v. Perales (1971)
786 federal appellate · 155 district · 195 state decisions — followed in 25 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc.
Cited together with Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · Richardson v. Perales · National Labor Relations Board v. Nevada Consolidated Copper 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 1,976 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
136 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * were all created to deal with problems of regulation of ever increasing complexity in the economic fields of trade, finance and industrial conflicts. Congress thus sought to utilize procedures more expeditious and administered by more specialized and experienced experts than courts had been able to afford. The decision here tends to nullify this Congressional effort.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.