National Labor Relations Board v. Ochoa Fertilizer Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
292 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Woelke & Romero Framing, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (1982), Detroit Edison Company v. National Labor Relations Board (1979)
292 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 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. Ochoa Fertilizer Corp. (from First 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)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Express Publishing Co. · May Department Stores Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Swift & Co. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Cheney California Lumber 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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(n)o objection that has not been urged before the Board, its member, agent or agency, shall be considered by the court, unless the failure or neglect to urge such objection shall be excused because of extraordinary circumstances”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the failure or neglect of a respondent to urge an objection in the Board's proceedings forecloses judicial consideration of the objection in enforcement proceedings.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If either party shall apply to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence ... the court may order such additional evidence to be taken before the Board, its member, agent, or agency, and to be made a part of the record. The Board may modify its findings as to the facts, or make new findings by reason of additional evidence so taken and filed, and it shall file such modified or new findings, which findings with respect to questions of fact if supported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole shall be conclusive, and shall file its recommendations, if any, for the modification or setting aside of its original order.”
3 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.