Wettre v. Hague’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2000
1 district ·
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.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 1003 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Lynch v. United States · Douglas v. City of Jeannette
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perhaps, though some authorities ruled otherwise, the Commission was given that power under the original 1944 Act. At any rate, the 1947 amendment certainly confers that power, if it did not exist previously. The language of the amendment broadly authorizes “corrective action.” And back-pay is a usual type of corrective action where an employee has been unlawfully demoted or dismissed.”
1 later decision 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.