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National Labor Relations Board v. Bell Aerospace Co.’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

2,732
cited by 2,732 later decisions
123
cited 123 times by the Supreme Court
35
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

1,275 federal appellate · 231 district · 276 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 2,732 later decisions (123 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977), United States v. Mead Corp. (2001)

1,275 federal appellate · 231 district · 276 state decisions — followed in 35 states

1.2k0197419801990200020102020decided

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

reviewedBell Aerospace Co. Division of Textron Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 156 (§ 6 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)

Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770

Cited together with Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Udall v. Tallman · National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co. · 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 2,732 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “congressional failure to revise or repeal the agency's interpretation is persuasive evidence that the interpretation is the one intended by Congress.”
    41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Philadelphia Gear Corporation · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor
  2. “lies primarily in the informed discretion of the administrative agency.”
    32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Tearney v. National Transportation Safety Board · Union of Concerned Scientists v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  3. “lies in the first instance within the [agency's] discretion.”
    22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Jay Norris, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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.