National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
322 U.S. 111 · 1944
Citation profile
1,298 federal appellate · 132 district · 251 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,559 later decisions (197 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1951)
1,298 federal appellate · 132 district · 251 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedHearst Publications, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Morgan v. Commissioner · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States
Cited together with Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Silk · Packard Motor Car Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 2,559 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has 'warrant in the record' and a reasonable basis in law.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not treated by Congress as a word of art having a definite meaning”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The term "employee" shall include any employee, and shall not be limited to the employees of a particular employer, unless this subchapter explicitly states otherwise, and shall include any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment, but shall not include any individual employed as an agricultural laborer, or in the domestic service of any family or person at his home, or any individual employed by his parent or spouse.”
3 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.