Social Security Board v. Nierotko’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 358 · 1946
Citation profile
390 federal appellate · 59 district · 158 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 955 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Flemming v. Nestor (1960)
390 federal appellate · 59 district · 158 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedNierotko v. Social Security Board (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 119 · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Armour & Co. v. Wantock
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 955 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means not only work actually done but the entire employer-employee relationship for which compensation is paid to the employee by the employer.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Administrative determinations must have a basis in law and must be within the granted authority. Administration when it interprets a statute so as to make it apply to particular circumstances acts as a delegate to the legislative power. * * * An agency may not finally decide the limits of its statutory power. That is a judicial function.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * we think it plain that an individual, who is an employee under the Labor Act and who receives “back pay” for a period of time during which he was wrongfully separated from his job, is entitled to have that award of back pay treated as wages under the Social Security Act definitions which defines wages as “remuneration for employment” and employment as “any service * * * performed * * * by an employee for his employer * * [ 327 U.S. at 364 , 66 S.Ct. at 641 .]”
7 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.