Walling v. American Stores Co.’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.2d 840 · 1943
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably Arnold v. Ben Kanowsky, Inc. (1960), Phillips v. Walling US (1945)
37 federal appellate · 1 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 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Higgins v. Carr Bros. · Walling v. Goldblatt Bros.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the court in that case did not have the advantage of the guidance given by the Supreme Court decisions of Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Company and Higgins v. Carr Brothers Company [1943, 317 U.S. 572 , 63 S.Ct. 337, 338, 87 L.Ed. 468] * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e should not be justified in a literal application of [statutory] words where they would lead to a result plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole.”
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.