Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 194 · 1947
Citation profile
3,404 federal appellate · 579 district · 629 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7,459 later decisions (177 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert (1983)
3,404 federal appellate · 579 district · 629 state decisions — followed in 41 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
reviewedChenery Corp. v. Securities & Exchange Commission (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Broadcasting Co. v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co.
Cited together with Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe
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 7,459 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] reviewing court, in dealing with a determination or judgment which an administrative agency alone is authorized to make, must judge the propriety of such action solely by the grounds invoked by the agency.”
241 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he choice made between proceeding by general rule or by individual, ad hoc litigation is one that lies primarily in the informed discretion of the administrative agency.”
160 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“justify the use of the administrative process”
9 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.