Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 533 · 1943
Citation profile
965 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,328 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1964), Yates v. United States (1957)
965 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedVirginia Electric & Power Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel
Cited together with Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. · Phelps Dodge Corporation 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 1,328 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless it can be shown that the order is a patent attempt to achieve ends other than those which can fairly be said to effectuate the policies of the Act.”
79 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to take such affirmative action including reinstatement of employees with or without back pay, as will effectuate”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 29 Cal. 3d 848 - Highland Ranch v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board · International Union of Electrical, Radio and MacHine Workers, Local 613, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board, Erie Technological Products, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, International Union of Electrical, Radio and MacHine Workers, Intervenor. William P. Young, Secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor“has wide discretion in ordering affirmative action”
4 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.