National Labor Relations Board v. Metropolitan Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
518 federal appellate · 18 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 737 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert (1983), Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Wichita Board of Trade (1973)
518 federal appellate · 18 district · 14 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
reviewedMetropolitan Life Insurance v. National Labor Relations Board (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Miami, Inc. · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. National 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 737 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reviewing courts to substitute counsel's rationale or their discretion for that of the Board.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“give clear indication that it has exercised the discretion with which Congress has empowered it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to assure to employees the fullest freedom in exercising the rights guaranteed by this Act.”
7 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.