National Labor Relations Board v. Reliance Fuel Oil Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
336 federal appellate · 24 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 491 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1965), National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop (1979)
336 federal appellate · 24 district · 15 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. Reliance Fuel Oil Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Wickard v. Filburn · NLRB v. Fain-Blatt · Weber v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. · Guss v. Utah Labor Relations Board
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 491 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fullest jurisdictional breadth constitutionally permissible under the Commerce Clause.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Through the National Labor Relations Act, ‘ * * * Congress has explicitly regulated not merely transactions or goods in interstate commerce but activities which in isolation might be deemed to be merely local but in the interlacings of business across state lines adversely affect such commerce.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in commerce, or burdening or obstructing commerce or the free flow of commerce, or having led or tending to lead to a labor dispute burdening or obstructing commerce or the free flow of commerce.”
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.