Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 177 · 1941
Citation profile
1,909 federal appellate · 67 district · 230 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,066 later decisions (262 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977), Vaca v. Sipes (1967)
1,909 federal appellate · 67 district · 230 state decisions — followed in 31 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
reviewedPhelps Dodge Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Second 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 · National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co.
Cited together with Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel 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 3,066 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the relation of remedy to policy is peculiarly a matter for administrative competence, courts must not enter the allowable area of the Board’s discretion and must guard against the danger of sliding unconsciously from the narrow confines of law into the more spacious domain of policy.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'for losses suffered on account of an unfair labor practice is part of the vindication of the public policy which the Board enforces'”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the situation, as nearly as possible, to that which would have obtained but for”
16 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.