Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2,066 federal appellate · 699 district · 259 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,662 later decisions (129 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe (1971), Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert (1983)
2,066 federal appellate · 699 district · 259 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1336 · 29 U.S.C. § 113 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 1007
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering
Cited together with Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 5,662 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.”
216 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the same basis articulated in the order by the agency itself.”
90 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All decisions (including initial, recommended, or tentative decisions) shall become part of the record and include a statement of * * * findings and conclusions, as well as the reasons or basis therefor, upon all material issues of fact, law, or discretion presented on the record.”
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.