National Labor Relations Board v. Fant Milling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
355 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 471 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2006 · most notably Occidental Life Insurance Company of California v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1977), National Realty & Construction Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission (1973)
355 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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. Fant Milling Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 161 (§ 11 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · National Licorice Co. 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 471 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there can be no justification for confining [the Board's] inquiry to the precise particularizations of a charge,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'which are related to those alleged in the charge and which grow out of them while the proceeding is pending before the Board,'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“carte blanche to expand the charge as they might please, or to ignore it altogether.”
10 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.