National Labor Relations Board v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1,040 federal appellate · 72 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,781 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Federal Election Commission v. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (1981)
1,040 federal appellate · 72 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedNational Labor Relations Board v. Brown (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Radio Officers' Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union v. National Labor Relations Board
Cited together with Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · American Ship Building Company v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Erie Resistor Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Great Dane Trailers, 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 1,781 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not obliged to stand aside and rubber-stamp their affirmance of administrative decisions that they deem inconsistent with a statutory mandate or that frustrate the congressional policy underlying a statute.”
110 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the added element of unlawful intent is also required.”
6 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.