Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB, 340 U.S. 474 (1951), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that a court will defer to a federal agency's findings of fact if supported by "substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole.

"[1] Universal Camera added another qualification to the substantial evidence test laid down in Consolidated Edison Co. v. NLRB.

The Act provided that "[t]he findings of the Board as to the facts, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive.

It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.

[7] Universal Camera has been "the leading case on the meaning of the APA's 'substantial evidence' test for review of agency factual conclusions in formal proceedings" for over sixty years.