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Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting’s Empirical Analysis

563 U.S. 582 · 2011

Citation profile

118
cited by 118 later decisions
9
cited 9 times by the Supreme Court
12
states following
June 2026
most recently cited

27 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1801 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 1811 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 1813 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 1853 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 1871 (Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1320B (§ 1137 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)

Relies on Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · Jones v. United States

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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “freewheeling judicial inquiry into whether a state statute is in tension with federal objectives”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[W]e 'focus on the plain wording of the clause, which necessarily contains the best evidence of Congress' preemptive intent.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Congress's 'authoritative statement is the statutory text, not the legislative history.'”
    2 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.