Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 80 · 1943
Citation profile
3,645 federal appellate · 354 district · 510 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7,120 later decisions (213 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe (1971), Link v. Wabash Railroad (1962)
3,645 federal appellate · 354 district · 510 state decisions — followed in 39 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
reviewedChenery Corp. v. Securities & Exchange Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Helvering v. Gowran · Meinhard v. Salmon
Cited together with Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe
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 7,120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The grounds upon which an administrative order must be judged are those upon which the record discloses that its action was based.”
146 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n administrative order cannot be upheld unless the grounds upon which the agency acted in exercising its powers were those upon which its action can be sustained.”
123 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But to say that a man is a fiduciary only begins analysis; it gives direction to further inquiry. To whom is he a fiduciary? What obligations does he owe as a fiduciary? In what respect has he failed to discharge these obligations? And what are the consequences of his deviation from duty?”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Sealed Case · Sladen v. Rowse
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.