National Labor Relations Board v. E. C. Atkins & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 398 · 1947
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 259 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. (1971), National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1947)
160 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions
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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. E. C. Atkins & Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Packard Motor Car Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · J. I. Case Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc. · Standard Oil Co of California v. Johnson
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 259 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is free to take account of the more relevant economic and statutory considerations”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be accepted by reviewing courts if it has a reasonable basis in the evidence and is not inconsistent with the law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the responsibility of representing the public interest ... and of reaching a judgment after giving due weight to all the relevant factors lay primarily with the Board.”
1 later decision 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.