Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 474 · 1951
Citation profile
14,734 federal appellate · 805 district · 961 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22,957 later decisions (215 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Richardson v. Perales (1971), Williams v. Taylor (2000)
14,734 federal appellate · 805 district · 961 state decisions — followed in 43 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Universal Camera Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 1001 · 5 U.S.C. § 1007 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board
Cited together with Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel Packing Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Walton Manufacturing Co. · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Pittsburgh Steamship Co.
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 22,957 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
975 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The findings of the Commission as to the facts, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Court added that there “are no talismanic words that can avoid the process of judgment.” It concluded then, as we do now, that the “[w]ant of certainty” in judicial standards “partly reflects the intractability of any formula to furnish definiteness of content for all the impalpable factors involved in judicial review.””
2 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.