National Labor Relations Board v. Natural Gas Utility District’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
224 federal appellate · 31 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 457 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield (1989), Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. (1983)
224 federal appellate · 31 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 14 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. Natural Gas Utility District (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 103 · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 418 (§ 218 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Jerome v. United States · Clay v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Randolph Electric Membership Corp.
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 457 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that are either (1) created directly by the state, so as to constitute departments or administrative arms of the government, or (2) administered by individuals who are responsible to public officials or to the general electorate.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any State or political subdivision thereof.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[I]n the absence of a plain indication to the contrary, ... it is to be assumed when Congress enacts a statute that it does not intend to make its application dependent on state law.”
10 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.