Walling v. Goldblatt Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.2d 778 · 1942
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably United States v. DeMet (1973), United States v. Peete (1990)
46 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 44 (§ 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 715A · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 49 U.S.C. § 306 · 7 U.S.C. § 183
Relies on Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · United States v. Darby · Swift Company v. United States · Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Stafford v. Wallace
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant knew in advance from its records in a general way, the needs of the retail stores and acted accordingly. Rut defendant was not relying on existing orders from its stores or customers. The goods arrived at the warehouses and came to rest. They were not destined for any specific customer or store. The mere fact that an anticipated local transaction causes movement in interstate commerce is not sufficient to constitute the wholly local transaction after arrival a part of commerce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The commerce clause endows Congress will full and plenary power to do anything and everything necessary to protect interstate commerce-The specific question is whether in the statute involved the Congress has seen fit to exercise all of its power.”
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.