National Labor Relations Board v. Lion Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
239 federal appellate · 28 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 533 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Richards v. United States (1962), National Labor Relations Board v. Bildisco & Bildisco (1984)
239 federal appellate · 28 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedLion Oil Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 163 (§ 13 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Sweet v. United States · Mesarosh v. United States
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 533 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to find that interpretation which can most fairly be said to be imbedded in the statute, in the sense of being most harmonious with its scheme and with the general purposes that Congress manifested.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In expounding a statute, we must not be guided by a single sentence or member of a sentence, but look to the provisions of the whole law, and to its object and policy.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“State * * * agency established to mediate and conciliate disputes”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.