Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 143 · 1946
Citation profile
577 federal appellate · 116 district · 256 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,683 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Udall v. Tallman (1965)
577 federal appellate · 116 district · 256 state decisions — followed in 30 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Rochester Telephone Corporation v. United States
Cited together with Udall v. Tallman · United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers · Universal Camera Corp. 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 1,683 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To sustain the Commission's application of this statutory term, we need not find that its construction is the only reasonable one, or even that it is the result we would have reached had the question arisen in the first instance in judicial proceedings.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reviewing court usurps the agency's function when it sets aside the administrative determination upon a ground not theretofore presented and deprives the [agency] of an opportunity to consider the matter, make its ruling, and state the reasons for its action.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for any week ... unemployment is due to a labor dispute... .”
6 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.