National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
775 federal appellate · 78 district · 168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,534 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital (1988), Chrysler Corporation v. Brown (1979)
775 federal appellate · 78 district · 168 state decisions — followed in 25 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
reviewedWyman-Gordon Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 156 (§ 6 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 161 (§ 11 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 554 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board
Cited together with Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Universal Camera Corp. 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 1,534 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Chenery does not require that we convert judicial review of agency action into a ping-pong game.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“were designed to assure fairness and mature consideration of rules of general application.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Adjudicated cases may and do ... serve as vehicles for the formulation of agency policies, which are applied and announced therein.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.