Republic Steel Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
311 U.S. 7 · 1940
Citation profile
521 federal appellate · 22 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 787 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (1941), Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board (1954)
521 federal appellate · 22 district · 44 state decisions
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
reviewedRepublic Steel Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc. · Republic Steel Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Tovrea Packing Co.
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 787 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he power to command affirmative action is remedial, not punitive.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not carry a penal program declaring the described unfair labor practices to be crimes”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“while the Board is given wide leeway in fashioning remedies, the remedy chosen must 'achieve the remedial objectives which the Act sets forth.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. U.S. Marine Corporation and Bayliner Marine Corporation, Petitioners/cross-Respondents v. National Labor Relations Board, Respondent/cross-Petitioner, International Union, Allied Industrial Workers of America, Afl-Cio, Intervening International Union, Allied Industrial Workers of America, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Emsing's Supermarket, Inc.
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.