Allentown MacK Sales & Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
571 federal appellate · 101 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,180 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (2009), Dia v. Ashcroft (2003)
571 federal appellate · 101 district · 7 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
reviewedAllentown Mack Sales & Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (from District of Columbia 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation
Cited together with Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel Packing Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Curtin Matheson Scientific, 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 1,180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether on this record it would have been possible for a reasonable jury to reach the Board's conclusion.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]ot only must an agency's decreed result be within the scope of its lawful authority, but the process by which it reaches that result must be logical and rational.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“engaged in simple factfinding, unconstrained by substantive presumptions or evidentiary rules of exclusion, it is not free to prescribe what inferences from the evidence it will accept and reject, but must draw all those inferences that the evidence [including circumstantial evidence] fairly demands.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.