Rucker v. First Nat. Bank’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.2d 699 · 1943
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1967 · most notably Borden Co. v. Borella (1945), Clyde v. Broderick (1944)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · McLeod v. Threlkeld
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test under this present act, to determine whether an employee is engaged in commerce, is not whether the employee’s activities affect or indirectly relate to interstate commerce but whether they are actually in or so closely related to the movement of the commerce as to be a part of it. Employee activities outside of this movement, so far as they are covered by wage-hour regulation, are governed by the other phrase 'production of goods for commerce.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whatever may have been the doubts and differences along the way, it now seems fairly plain that the phrase ‘engaged in commerce,’ when used to measure coverage under the Fair Labor Standards Act, encompasses only employment actually in the ‘movement of commerce,’ or activities so closely related thereto as to be practically a part of it. In other words, ‘engaged in commerce’ means engaged in the interstate transportation or movement of commerce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.”
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.