Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 793 · 1945
Citation profile
1,348 federal appellate · 9 district · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,929 later decisions (108 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (1951)
1,348 federal appellate · 9 district · 97 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedRepublic Aviation Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Tot v. United States
Cited together with Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. · Beth Israel Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. United Steelworkers of America · Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board
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 1,929 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the time outside (work), whether before or after work, or during luncheon or rest periods, is an employee's time to use as he wishes without unreasonable restraint,”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the equally undisputed right of employers to maintain discipline in their establishments.”
17 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.